Sit Down with Michael Franzese

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📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, I asked David Goldberg one question before we sat down: can you beat a lie detector? He’s run over 20,000 of them. He said no. And then he offered to prove it on me. I’m thinking about it. I took a polygraph years ago, about my father’s case. I passed — because I was telling the truth. So I’ve never understood why the courts call it “pseudoscience” and won’t let a jury see it. In this one, David tells me exactly who benefits from keeping it out, and it’s not the innocent. We get into how a passed test forces prosecutors to deal, the story of me walking into Giuliani’s prosecutors before I was even indicted and answering every question — and what the jury said about it after they acquitted me — the “you did five, tell me about the sixth” interrogation method, why infidelity is now the #1 reason people take the test, what applicants confess when they’re strapped in for a police or fire department job, the innocent people David’s gotten out of prison, and the question we both asked: what would happen if every member of Congress had to take one before they were sworn in? His answer: maybe five seats would be filled. #LieDetector #Polygraph #MichaelFranzese #Congress #TrueCrime00:00:00 Why Won't the Courts Allow a Lie Detector? 00:01:13 Greetings From Palm Beach 00:02:08 I Took a Polygraph About My Father's Case — And Passed 00:05:10 "Pseudoscience" — Why the Courts Keep It Out 00:08:11 Court-Certified — When a Judge Will Let It In 00:12:57 The Day Giuliani Had Me Arrested 00:14:09 I Answered Every Question Before I Was Indicted — The Jury Noticed 00:18:27 A 30-Page Report Nobody Can Ignore 00:19:24 How a Passed Test Forces the Prosecutor's Hand 00:22:43 Christa Pike — Why I'm Against the Death Penalty 00:25:20 20,000 Tests. Never Failed Someone Who Didn't Deserve It. 00:27:46 Strapped In With a Stranger — What's at Stake 00:33:43 "You Did Five. Tell Me About the Sixth." 00:36:00 What You Say in That Room Stays in That Room 00:38:24 Cops Rush to Judgment — Why He Reads the Indictment First 00:41:40 The Innocent People He's Gotten Out of Prison 00:43:09 Death Row Without Justice — For Anyone 00:49:14 The #1 Reason People Take the Test: Infidelity 00:50:41 "I Think My Spouse Is Cheating" — What He Finds 00:52:14 The Dream Job — What Cops and Firefighters Confess 01:00:16 Put Every Member of Congress on the Box 01:03:43 They're in Every Party — I Could Pick Them Out 01:05:10 9/11 — His Proudest Moment in Law Enforcement 01:08:09 I Applaud What You Do 01:11:05 God Bless — See You Next Time Backbone Media Group

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Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin. Tony Bennett. Everybody thinks they know what the mob listened to because they saw Goodfellas. People, I didn’t watch the life in a movie theater. I lived it. I sat in those clubs. I was at those weddings. I stood in line at the Copa with my father. And some of the men who sang these songs were around our world — everybody knew it. So today I’m doing something I’ve never done: 18 songs, four tiers, S down to C. I’m not ranking who sang it best. I’m ranking how fast it puts me back at that table. Some of these put me right back in the room. Some of them — and you’re not going to like this — Hollywood snuck onto the playlist. Sinatra, Dino, Darin, Prima, the Four Seasons, the Stones, Clapton — and the one song the whole country sang along to without noticing it’s about a gangster. And stick around to the end, because I go off the list and tell you about a song that had nothing to do with the mob — the one I heard in a prison cell that told me I was going home. Tell me what I got wrong. Tell me what I left off. I read them.

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0:00 What the Mob Really Listened To 1:50 How the Tier Rankings Work 2:50 Growing Up at the Copacabana 5:35 Frank Sinatra: My Way 8:24 Luck Be a Lady & Mob-Era Vegas 9:11 That’s Life 9:48 Summer Wind & Meeting My Wife 10:45 Dean Martin: Ain’t That a Kick in the Head 11:34 That’s Amore 12:11 Volare 13:27 Tony Bennett: Rags to Riches 14:22 Sponsor: Rumble Wallet 16:00 Bobby Darin: Beyond the Sea 17:35 Mack the Knife 17:56 Louis Prima: Just a Gigolo 19:22 Frankie Valli & My Courtroom Story 20:53 Can’t Take My Eyes Off You 21:47 Walk Like a Man 22:26 In the Still of the Night 23:15 Then He Kissed Me 24:19 A Sunday Kind of Love 24:50 The Godfather Theme: Speak Softly, Love 25:57 The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter 27:11 Layla & the Goodfellas Aftermath 28:13 Final Rankings & a Sinatra Story 34:27 How Music Got Me Through Prison 36:30 Closing Thoughts #Mafia #Sinatra #DeanMartin #MobSongs #MichaelFranzese #TierList 🤝 Book 1 on 1 Call With Me: https://michaelfranzese.com/book-1-on-1-call/ 🔥 Check out my store: https://store.michaelfranzese.com/ 🎙️ Michael Franzese Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Eo39qb 📧 Interested in partnerships? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com Backbone Media Group

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📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, my father asked me a question once in a prison visiting room. “Son, if you ever had to kill anybody — could you do it?” I’ll tell you what I said. And I’ll tell you why a new mob movie called Redemption made me think about it again.I sat down with the writer and director, Asif, and his cast. Jon Lemmon — Jack Lemmon’s grandson — plays the lead: a good kid who gets pulled into the life to help his father and ends up in deeper than he ever meant to. Weston Coppola — Francis Ford Coppola’s great-nephew — plays Jackson, the guy who brings him in. Two Hollywood names in one mob picture. The movie also has Robert Davi, Frank Stallone, and Jon Lovitz in a role he told the director he’s never played before. The story isn’t mine — but it’s close enough that I had some things to say.We get into why good people do bad things, what it actually costs to walk away from that life, the night I told my father I was quitting school to help him, and why I respect a film that shows the human side of the men I knew.The movie’s coming out in the next couple of months. I’ll tell you when. There’s a New Mob Movie — And a Coppola’s in It. Former Mob Boss Sits Down With ‘Redemption’ Cast 00:00 "Son, If You Had to Kill Somebody — Could You?"00:41 Welcome — A Mob Movie Premiere in Vegas03:17 How Hard It Is to Get a Movie Made05:31 Meet the Cast — A Coppola at My Table06:32 From Cleveland to Hollywood — The Director's Story07:23 Why Mob Movies Never Die09:57 Thank You for Showing the Good Side of That Life10:23 Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?13:16 The Day I Told My Father I Was Quitting School13:42 The Question My Father Asked Me14:02 When Violence Feels Justified18:28 The Real Informant Behind the Film20:53 1980s Cleveland — The World of the Movie22:36 Walking Away Feels Like Betraying Your People23:48 The Milano Family and the Cleveland Mob26:35 I Knew Joe Colombo — And I Loved "The Offer"29:18 My Father Lived to 10329:54 How Weston Got the Call35:25 Releasing a Film the Old-School Way37:24 The World Premiere in Las Vegas38:31 Written With This Cast in Mind39:03 Frank Stallone's Character Was Based on a Real Guy42:14 A Thousand People at the Premiere — What I Saw43:35 God Bless — See You Next Time #Redemption #MobMovie #Coppola #FrankStallone #MichaelFranzese 📧 Interested in partnerships? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com Backbone Media Group

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Congress makes $174,000 a year, so how do so many of them leave Washington worth millions? I sat down with Ross Givens, a stock trading educator who has spent years tracking the trades of politicians and corporate insiders. Ross breaks down how the STOCK Act turned into a loophole: lawmakers and executives have to report their trades, and once they file that form, they’re free to keep trading. Here’s the part most people don’t know. Those reports are public, so anybody can see what they’re buying. My friends, I went to prison for tax fraud. What these people are doing makes what we did look like peanuts, and nobody is ever held accountable. I’ve said it for years and I wrote a whole book about it, Mafia Democracy: our government operates just like the mob. The difference is, we never took an oath to serve the people. In this conversation we get into: - What insider trading really is, and why Martha Stewart didn’t go to prison for it - How the STOCK Act lets Congress and CEOs trade on information you and I don’t have - Real examples of suspiciously well-timed trades by members of Congress - Why banning congressional stock trading is all a show - Nancy Pelosi, and why I say she’d be a mobster if she were a guy - Why Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history - How the government took over the rackets we went to jail for - How the average person can legally follow the insiders’ money Ross is hosting a FREE online training this Thursday, October 15th at 3:00 PM, where he’ll show you step by step how to find these insider trades yourself. Register here (they’ll send you the recording if you can’t make it live): Be safe, be healthy, and God bless each and every one of you. #Congress #InsiderTrading #Pelosi #StockMarket #MichaelFranzese #MafiaDemocracy This video includes a paid promotion. Nothing in this video is financial advice. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research. Backbone Media Group The Biggest Legal Scam in America (Ex-Mafia Boss Reacts)

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Christa Pike was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years. They strapped her to the gurney, started the execution — and she didn’t die. As of today, she’s alive, in a hospital, and talking. People, I read what she did. The torture of a 19-year-old girl. The skull fragment she kept. I’m not going to sugarcoat it — it’s demonic, and yes, she deserves to die. Even I’ll say that. But here’s where I’m going to lose some of you: the state still shouldn’t execute her. Not because of her. Because of the 203 people who’ve been freed from death row since 1973 — 145 of them because a prosecutor or a cop lied, framed them, or hid evidence. The death penalty isn’t for one person. It’s for everybody. And a civilized country cannot execute innocent people. We’re not Iran. We’re not China. I did eight years. I spent my first night in solitary thinking my life was over. Life without parole in a six-by-eight cell is not mercy, people. It’s severe punishment — and nobody ever gets exonerated from a grave. I also get into O.J., prosecutors who never pay for framing people, and what I think happens to Christa Pike now. Tell me where you stand. Keep it intelligent — we’re trying to have a real conversation here. 00:00 Christa Pike Survived Her Own Execution 00:22 Welcome — Shot Up With Phenobarbital and She Didn’t Die 01:03 Does This Woman Deserve to Die? 01:44 Satanic Murder Scene Still Haunts Police 31 Years Later 02:35 How They Lured Colleen Slemmer to Her Death 03:31 She Kept a Piece of Her Skull as a Trophy 04:41 Murder Is Murder. Torture Is Demonic. 05:29 Text Me — Should Christa Pike Die? 06:23 The Botched Execution — Where Things Stand Now 07:09 Yes, She Deserves to Die. No, the State Shouldn’t Execute Her. 07:38 The Death Penalty Isn’t for One Person. It’s for the Masses. 08:38 203 People Freed From Death Row Since 1973 09:26 My Father Was Framed — 50 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit 10:33 Execute an Innocent Person and There’s No Appeal 11:59 What If They Confess to the Crime? 13:26 The Same Stance I Took With OJ Simpson 14:34 Prove It Beyond a Reasonable Doubt or Set Them Free 14:54 Take Control of Your Money With Rumble Wallet 16:40 You Pay for It in This Life or the Next 17:20 Official Misconduct in 71% of Death Row Exonerations 18:21 What If It Were Your Family Member on Death Row? 19:31 Life Without Parole Is Not a Walk in the Park 20:01 My First Night in Solitary — I Thought My Life Was Over 20:56 Prosecutors Who Frame People Never Pay for It 21:38 They Have All the Money, Time and Power 23:22 DNA, Perjury and Doctored Forensics 24:59 If It Were My Daughter... 25:24 Redemption Doesn’t Erase Accountability 27:09 Will Tennessee Try to Execute Her Again? 27:53 My Position — End the Death Penalty 28:48 Thank You for Watching the Family Sit-Downs 31:12 My Brother John and I Are Building an Addiction Recovery Program 31:48 Big Things Coming This Holiday Season 32:18 Be Safe — A 7-Year-Old Girl Killed in Chicago 32:47 Ladies, Walk Next to Your Husband 33:15 Be Healthy — Why I Only Promote What I Believe In 33:51 God Bless America #ChristaPike #DeathPenalty #MichaelFranzese #TrueCrime #Tennessee Backbone Media Group

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My oldest daughter Miq sat down with her Uncle John a few weeks ago. She hadn’t seen him in years. Now he texts her five times a day. So I figured it was my turn to sit across from her. I was in and out of prison until she was nine years old. I always thought I was there for my kids, even from inside. Miq told me the truth — how growing up with a father who kept disappearing affected her relationships, her trust, and what she thought a good marriage was supposed to look like. She didn’t even realize it until her late twenties. We get into all of it: 41 years with her mother, and the time she thought we might not make it. Why she wishes she’d seen her mom be more affectionate. Her own rough first year of marriage, and why she refuses to be blindsided the way her mother was. Traditional roles — and yes, I said what I said. And I admit something on camera I’ve never really talked about: I wasn’t a good father to my two daughters from my first marriage. That’s on me. No excuses. I’m praying that changes. Our family has been offered reality shows more than once. We always said no. This is as real as it gets. My Daughter Told Me the TRUTH About Growing Up With a Mobster Dad 0:00 Introduction 2:43 My Daughter, Miquelle 6:02 What Miq Learned Sitting Down with My Brother John 8:52 On Trial with Giuliani When Her Mom Got Pregnant 11:24 Indicted Again a Month After She Was Born 14:01 How My Prison Years Affected My Daughter 17:54 Why Kids Need a Mother AND a Father 20:30 Becoming a Father Figure to My Sons-in-Law 23:32 “Anybody I Marry Has to Have a Misdemeanor” 26:47 What 41 Years of Marriage Taught My Daughter 31:01 Why My Wife and I Argue (Two Glasses of Wine) 32:41 The Rough Patch in Our Marriage 34:36 Marriage Is Tough: Money and Trust 35:45 My Regrets with My Daughters from My First Marriage 46:26 Don’t Keep Your Wife in the Dark About Money 49:37 Men and Women Are Equal but Have Different Roles 53:13 Men, Do Your Job: Provide and Protect 56:30 Praying for a New Grandchild 58:38 Why My Family Turned Down a Reality Show 60:30 You Asked Me to Call You “Friends” 62:36 Final Thoughts: Be Safe, Be Healthy #MichaelFranzese #MiquelleFranzese #FranzeseFamily #FatherDaughter #Marriage

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People, this is it — the final sit-down with my brother John. Three weeks ago we went back to the house we grew up in. Last week he told you why he wore the wire. This week we go to the years in between: when my brother was in the life too, during the war, and our father was doing everything he could to get him made.John was five years sober when he went to see dad. Dad told him, “Son, I’m proud of you.” Took two steps. Then: “It’s a shame you ruined your whole life, though.” That’s our father. And if you knew him, you know he meant both.We get into the night they called John down to the club during the war — no gun, nobody there, and a captain telling him “your father can’t help you anymore.” What dad said from prison when John asked him what to do. The rumor our mother started in a visiting room that almost got our father hurt. The meeting at a lawyer’s office where dad tried to bring John in — and why it never happened. Chicky, Louie, Frankie, and some stories about dad that still make us laugh.And my brother says something in here I want you to hear: 24 years, and he hasn’t raised his hands or wished harm on a single person.I couldn’t sit down with my father anymore. So I sat down with his other son. If you’ve watched all three, thank you — this one was for us.Part 1 and Part 2 are linked below if you’re just finding this.#MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #ColomboFamily #MobFamily

Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 3)

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📲 Text me — who do you think was the more powerful organization? Make your case. I read them: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, let me set this straight right now. The first real organized crime gangs in New York weren’t Italian. They were IRISH — decades before my people ever got off the boat. The Forty Thieves, the Dead Rabbits, the Gophers, the Hudson Dusters. They owned the docks, the unions, and City Hall. So here’s my question: if the Irish were first, why is there no Irish Commission? Why was there no Irish Luciano? I knew these guys. I did business with the Westies. Jimmy Coonan was a stand-up guy — and I know more about Jimmy than most people do. Some of that I’ll get to. And I’ll correct a few things the legend gets wrong: the Gambinos didn’t partner with the Westies out of fear, and Fat Tony wasn’t the real power behind that deal. We go through all of it — Hell’s Kitchen, Whitey Bulger and the biggest law enforcement scandal in mob history, Danny Greene in Cleveland — and then I give you my verdict. Because the answer to who won isn’t about who was tougher. A feared crew dies with its leader. An organization replaces him by Tuesday. That’s the whole difference. #IrishMob #Westies #Mafia #WhiteyBulger #MichaelFranzese #OrganizedCrime 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 00:00 The Irish Were First. So Where's the Irish Commission?00:35 Welcome — And a Quick Word on the Diddy Verdict01:33 Were the Westies Really an Organization?02:20 Why There Was Never an Irish Luciano03:38 What I Know About Jimmy Coonan04:05 The Forty Thieves — New York's First Gang Was Irish04:42 Dead Rabbits, Whyos, Gophers — They Owned the Street and City Hall05:44 The Westies — Hell's Kitchen, Coonan & Featherstone06:20 We Didn't Partner With Them Out of Fear06:56 Fat Tony Wasn't the Real Power. The Chin Was.08:15 A Feared Crew Dies With Its Leader08:47 What Made the Italians Different — The System10:14 Jimmy Got 75 Years. The Westies Went With Him.13:22 Whitey Bulger — Boss and FBI Informant15:00 Danny Greene and the Cleveland War16:13 My Verdict — Hierarchy Beats the Neighborhood Crew17:39 Why the Family Survives the Boss18:48 Could a Non-Italian Ever Be Fully Inside?20:28 Did We Use the Irish for Work We Wanted Distance From?21:51 Were the Westies Really Independent?23:14 They Had Killers and City Hall. We Built a System.23:53 Text Me — Who Was More Powerful?24:33 A Glass of Wine and a Slice25:56 A Warning for the Ladies — Please Be Safe29:42 Franzese Fam, Lives & Ministry Monday31:25 I'm Not Going to Hell for Anybody Backbone Media Group

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📲 Text me your pick for top 10 richest mobsters: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 ✅ Take Control of Your Money and claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USD₮)! Download now at http://wallet.rumble.com/InnerCircle and use the code InnerCircle10. 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ In 1986, Fortune magazine put out a list of the 50 biggest mafia bosses in America — a Fortune 500 for my world. I was number 18. The youngest man on the list. I found out about it sitting in a federal prison in Arizona, when the lieutenant called me into his office and locked me down for a week over it. Here’s the thing, people — they got it wrong. Those were journalists guessing from the outside. They never saw the cash. They didn’t know who was kicking up to who. And in our world, the smartest earners were invisible on purpose. So today you’re getting the list they couldn’t write: the 10 richest mobsters of all time, ranked by a guy who was on the inside, knew how the money actually moved, and made the list himself. Capone, Lansky, Luciano, Costello, Carlo Gambino, Fat Tony, Marcello, Trafficante, Rothstein and Gotti — and I’ll tell you my number one and exactly why it’s not close. And yes, I answer the question you’re all going to ask: where would I rank on that list, and what it really cost me. Tell me in the comments who I got wrong — if somebody makes a good enough case, we’ll do a part two.

Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Richest Mobsters Ever

00:00 The List Fortune Magazine Couldn't Write 00:52 1986 — They Locked Me Down Over That Article 02:18 I Was #18. The Youngest Man on the List. 02:44 Why They Got It Wrong 03:30 My Father's Reaction 05:08 Nobody Really Knows the Numbers — Here's Why 06:55 Arnold Rothstein — He Made Crime a Business 07:46 Al Capone — $100 Million in the 1920s 08:46 Lucky Luciano — The Architect 10:02 Meyer Lansky — "Bigger Than U.S. Steel" 11:02 Frank Costello — The One I Modeled Myself After 12:14 Carlo Gambino — The Richest Man You Never Heard About 13:34 Fat Tony Salerno — Fortune Said #1. I Disagree. 16:33 "Give These Mamalukes a Job" — My Day With Fat Tony 19:10 Carlos Marcello — Half of Louisiana Answered to Him 20:06 Santo Trafficante — The Mob's Foreign Minister 21:01 John Gotti — The Flash Is What Kills You 22:33 "What About You, Michael?" 23:06 The Jet, the Helicopter & the Houses 24:07 What It Actually Cost Me 26:15 My #1 — And It's Not Close 28:12 My #2 30:02 The Only Wealth That Lasts #Mafia #AlCapone #MeyerLansky #JohnGotti #MichaelFranzese #Mob #Top10 Backbone Media Group

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📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 ✅ Take Control of Your Money and claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USD₮)! Download now at http://wallet.rumble.com/InnerCircle and use the code InnerCircle10. 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ People, last week my brother and I went back to the beginning. This week we get to the part you’ve been waiting for — and I’m going to let him tell it himself. Why John wore a wire on our father. Not the version you’ve read, not the version the papers wrote. His. He walks me through all of it: the meeting in 1995, what he was told about mom and dad getting re-indicted, what he thought he was doing for our father, the money they paid him — $600 a month, he was living under the poverty line — the device they wanted to put under his skin, and the moment he heard what they wanted done to somebody and knew he couldn’t be part of it. And then there’s my father. Dad telling him “if it was the other way around, you’d have done it to me.” Dad telling him “we don’t kill our family.” I’ll be honest with you — there are things in this conversation that disappointed me in my own father, and I say so out loud for the first time. We also get into the day John got sober and everything changed, the years I didn’t know where he was, and how a guy from our old neighborhood ends up as his friend in California. You can call my brother whatever you want. Hear him out first. Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 2) This is Part 2 of 3. Part 3 drops next week. #MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #FranzeseFamily #MobFamily Backbone Media Group

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📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: (424) 325 0921 People, I’ve told my story for over 30 years. Today you’re going to hear the side of it I couldn’t tell — because I didn’t live it. My brother John is finally at my table. Same house, same father, same life... seen from the other side. You may know his story — and believe me, we’re going to get to ALL of it — but it starts where WE started: growing up as Sonny Franzese’s sons. I can’t sit down with my father anymore. So this sit-down, with his other son, might be the most important one I ever do. John takes full responsibility for everything in his life — he’s never made excuses. And in this one he tells me things even I didn’t know: the truth about our mother — I say some things about her I’ve never said publicly — the night dad went to jail, the prison visits he hated, the day dad told him “there’s no shame in crying,” his 16-year war with addiction and the rehab he walked out of on day 88, our sister Gia, and the conversation where I begged our father to see what was happening to his son — and he couldn’t. This is Part 1 of 3. Part 2 drops next week — and that’s where we get into the part of John’s story you think you know. If you or someone you love is fighting addiction — my brother is living proof it can be beaten. Don’t give up on them. Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 1) #MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #FranzeseFamily #Addiction #MobFamily Backbone Media Group

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🍷 Join me in the next video with a glass of wine: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ ✅ Take Control of Your Money and claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USD₮)! Download now at http://wallet.rumble.com/InnerCircle and use the code InnerCircle10. 📧Inquiries: julia@michaelfranzese.com People, this one is emotional for me. Four years ago, my youngest daughter Julia went through the unthinkable — she lost someone she loved, in our own home, to a pill laced with fentanyl. When she sat down with me back then, she could barely talk about it. Today, my little princess is back at this table — as a married woman. And I had the privilege of officiating the wedding myself. We talk about everything: the three years where she was surviving instead of living, why she refused to settle, how her faith carried her when she couldn’t hear God at all, the moment Tyler walked in — and why she almost passed on him — what marriage has already changed, and the conversation about fathers, daughters and what a man owes his family that I know some of you are going to blow me up for. Good. Tell me in the comments. If you or someone you love is struggling with loss or addiction, please — talk to somebody. That’s part of why we share this story. #MichaelFranzese #JuliaFranzese #FentanylAwareness #Faith #family Backbone Media Group

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🍷 Join me in the next video with a glass of wine: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ People, a couple of years ago I ranked mob movies and shows together — today, it’s TELEVISION ONLY. The top 10 organized crime shows ever made, ranked by a guy who lived what they filmed. I knew Joe Colombo personally. I knew the real guys these characters are based on. So when I tell you a show got it right — or got it dead wrong — I’m not guessing, people. I was there. All ten are on the board: the giant that started it all, the rawest Italian crime show ever put on TV, the one that isn’t even a mob show but HAD to make my list, an old-school deep cut most of you have never even heard of — and Tulsa King placed somewhere you wouldn't expect. I know some of you are going to blow me up for that. Good. Tell me why I’m wrong in the comments, give me YOUR number one, and tell me what I left off. And stick around after the rankings — I get into which shows actually capture the life, and my honest problem with how some of them use violence. Best and worst. No mercy. Salute.🍷 #TheSopranos #TulsaKing #Mafia #MobShows #PeakyBlinders #MichaelFranzese Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made 🤝 Book 1 on 1 Call With Me: https://michaelfranzese.com/book-1-on-1-call/ 🔥 Check out my store: https://store.michaelfranzese.com/ 🎙️ Michael Franzese Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Eo39qb 📧 Interested in partnerships? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com Backbone Media Group

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People, Lindy Li raised MILLIONS for the Democratic Party. She was in the rooms almost nobody gets into — and what she told me, face to face, is worse than anything you’ve heard. The President of the United States, who’d known her for a decade, told her “tell your husband I said hi.” Lindy has never been married. Staff confiscated her phone in a ziplock bag every time she got near him — so nobody could show the world his condition. The family doctor vouched for his fitness out of LOYALTY, not medicine. And the chief strategist was paid $4 MILLION — with another $4 million coming if they duped the American people into thinking Biden was fit. That’s not a campaign, people. That’s an operation. And I know an operation when I see one.

We get into who was really making the decisions, why Jill pushed him to run — Lindy calls it what it is — the media blacklist and the 3 A.M. slot they punished her with, what she handed over to Congress that you’ll hear about here FIRST, and her honest verdicts on Kamala, Newsom, AOC and the party she finally walked away from.

📖 Her new book tells the whole story — get it here: https://a.co/d/01AsSmCl

00:00:00 "Funding a Vegetable" — What You're About to Hear

00:01:03 Welcome, My Friends — I've Got a Confession to Make

00:05:22 My Confession — Why You Need to Hear Her Out

00:10:43 What Walking Away Cost Her

00:14:02 Being a Christian Inside the Democrat Party

00:18:43 The mRNA Push — And the 10-Year Fauci Pardon

00:20:32 He Pardoned His Whole Family Too

00:21:44 Jill Knew — "That's Not Love"

00:22:20 "This Is Elder Abuse"

00:23:13 She Was in the Room on Debate Night

00:23:54 "Tell Your Husband I Said Hi" — She's Never Been Married

00:27:30 $4 MILLION to Keep the Lie Alive

00:28:06 "Our Country Was Collateral Damage for the Biden Family"

00:30:51 The Media Knew Her Well — Until She Spoke Up

00:32:09 The 3 A.M. Slot — How They Punished Her

00:36:16 Her Great-Grandfather Was Murdered by Communists

00:37:05 Her War With AOC — "A Classic Bully"

00:38:30 Kamala & Willie Brown — I Can Back That Up

00:39:30 "I Was Duped by Obama"

00:40:12 The BLM Mansion — Grievance Grifters

00:44:44 What the Party Really Said About the Border

00:45:27 $150 Billion a Year — The Permanent Majority Plan

00:48:17 $39 Trillion in Debt — Who Pays for the Wars?

00:51:43 Newsom — I've Been His Biggest Critic

00:54:43 She's Dealt With Newsom Personally — "It's Worse"

00:56:25 His Best Friend's Wife — That Tells You Everything

00:59:49 Shapiro Stripped Her Commission — No Call, No Text

01:00:37 Socialists in Power — I Never Thought I'd See It

01:04:27 9/11 — They Took Our Innocence

01:05:25 Her Book — The Forrest Gump of the Democrat Party

01:07:01 They Confiscated Her Phone Around Biden — Every Time

01:07:39 What She Handed Congress — You're Hearing It FIRST

01:10:30 I Know the RICO Statute — My Take on the Investigation

01:12:49 "I Think He's Dying" — Her Honest Word on Joe

01:13:09 Hunter Is a Different Story

01:21:18 Credit Where It's Due — The Border Today

01:23:21 Her Book, Her Loss & Why She Wrote It

01:28:16 Song of Solomon 8:7 — Until Next Time

#LindyLi #Biden #MichaelFranzese #CoverUp #Democrat #Insider

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🍷 Join me in the next video with a glass of wine: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ ✅ Take Control of Your Money and claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USD₮)! Download now at http://wallet.rumble.com/InnerCircle and use the code InnerCircle10. People, I knew the real Greg Scarpa. We were in the same family — I was close with him, and his son Greg Jr. and I were made on the same night. So when Mark Wahlberg sits down with me after playing Scarpa in “By Any Means,” I told him straight to his face: you made him look NICER than he actually was. We get into everything: who Greg Scarpa really was behind the movie version, the story of a mob killer working with the FBI to take down the Ku Klux Klan, what I now believe REALLY happened with the Colombo shooting — and it’s not what everybody thinks — whether Persico knew Scarpa was informing all those years, Mark’s dad playing the numbers back in the day, his faith and why he never hides it, and the question this whole movie hangs on: who’s worse, the mob or the Klan? And is the government ever right to use one monster to catch another? “By Any Means” opens in theaters Friday, September 4th. It’s dark, it’s violent — but that’s exactly who Greg Scarpa was. Go see it, then come back and tell me if I’m wrong. And stay tuned, people — my sit-down with my friend Greg Scarpa Jr. is coming next, and after that, my full review of the movie. Former Mobster Who Knew Greg Scarpa Grades Mark Wahlberg's Performance — To His Face I Was a Capo With the Real Greg Scarpa. I Told Mark Wahlberg How He Really Did. 0:00 — I Told Mark He Made Him Look Nicer Than He Really Was 1:25 — My Sit-Down With Mark Wahlberg 2:37 — Who's Worse — the Mob or the Klan? 3:28 — Mark Almost Played Scarpa Once Before 3:55 — What Really Happened the Day Joe Colombo Got Shot 5:03 — The Guys Scarpa Killed Using FBI Information 6:29 — What the Government Did to Him in Prison 7:37 — I Told Mark Somebody Wants to Play Me 8:20 — His Next Movie Is on Pete Rose 10:19 — My Dad Lived to Play the Numbers 11:14 — The Day They Stole My Hub Caps at the Track 11:49 — Mark's Faith and His Jailhouse Tattoo 14:14 — My Honest Take After Sitting Down With Him 18:36 — Jack Ruby, JFK, and What I Was Told 19:24 — Lucky Luciano and the War Effort 20:24 — How the FBI Used Scarpa to Solve the KKK Murder 21:44 — What I Was Told About Marilyn Monroe 23:00 — The Mob or the Klan — Who's Really Worse? 24:04 — Where the "Italians Are Racist" Myth Started 26:36 — Why Mark's Faith Moved Me 30:26 — Go See "By Any Means" #MarkWahlberg #GregScarpa #ByAnyMeans #MichaelFranzese #Mafia #Colombo

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It’s not often I bring a guest back — but after our first sit-down hit over a million and a half views, Andrew Bustamante earned his seat at my table twice. Ex-CIA intelligence officer. His wife? Also CIA. And this time he brought his new book — and people, I don’t take notes on books. I took notes on this one. We get into the spy skills they don’t teach you anywhere else: how to detect a lie from a trained interrogator’s perspective, why you should trust NO ONE until they earn it — something the CIA and my old life agree on completely — how the CIA recruits people and how you can use the same psychology, the three resources that actually matter, and why there really is a system behind the system. An unfair advantage isn’t an illegal advantage, people. It’s only unfair to those who don’t have it. Now you can have it. Ex-CIA Agent Reveals the Spy Skills That Give You an Unfair Advantage Backbone Media Group 00:00:00 Introduction00:04:40 Interview Start00:11:41 Knowledge, Experience, Intelligence00:19:01 Japanese Screen Culture01:34:15 Outro Backbone Media Group

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I've done maybe 2,000 sit-downs in my life. This one's different. Sam Shamoun has spent 30 years debating the biggest questions of faith — Muslims, atheists, skeptics, you name it — and people, I've never met anyone in this kind of command of scripture. Me? I found God in a prison cell, three years in the hole, reading a Bible because I had a healthy fear of hell. Two different roads. Same destination. In this sit-down: the evidence for the resurrection that even atheist historians can't deny, what happened when a Muslim apologist shook Sam's faith as a young man — and where that journey took him, why 500 witnesses can't all be hallucinating, the question skeptics still can't answer, and why I say believing in Jesus is a win-win. I'm not here to impose my faith on anybody. I don't care what faith you are — or if you have no faith at all. All I ask is that you hear it out, use your common sense, and decide for yourself. And if you disagree? The comments are open. Prove us wrong.

The Mob Boss and the Christian Debate Champion — The Sit-Down Nobody Expected

#SamShamoun #MichaelFranzese #Christianity #Apologetics #Resurrection00:00:00 The One Fact You Can't Deny 00:00:50 Take a Good Look at Me — Why I Believe 00:04:43 Meet Sam Shamoun — I'm in Awe of This Man 00:07:48 Sam's Story — From Kuwait to Chicago 00:08:36 The Encounter That Started It All 00:09:54 The Debate That Shook His Faith 00:15:15 Is the Bible Historically Accurate? Let's Be Honest 00:17:47 The Atheist Historian Who Proves Our Point 00:19:10 The Fact No Serious Historian Denies 00:21:53 Why the Empty Tomb Story Has to Be True 00:24:38 Paul HATED Jesus. Then He Saw Him. 00:27:14 I Asked Sam: What Happened When You Read the Quran? 00:31:28 An Angel of Light — Sam's View on Muhammad's Vision 00:41:39 Was Jesus Only a Prophet? Here's the Problem 00:42:08 "God Is Not a Man" — Answering the Objection 00:45:55 The Trinity — Proven From Mark Alone 00:49:32 Why Skeptics Really Reject the Resurrection 00:52:59 500 Witnesses Can't All Hallucinate 00:59:10 3 Years in Solitary — My Healthy Fear of Hell 01:02:02 Are the Jews God's Chosen People? An Honest Answer 01:08:52 The Name Hidden in the Old Testament 01:14:36 The Rapture & the 7-Year Tribulation — Look Again 01:19:45 How to Actually Know Him 01:23:32 Why God Allows Evil — Love Can't Be Forced 01:25:49 "I'm a Made Guy Now" — My Final Thoughts Backbone Media Group

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🍝 Get the Goodfellas Bundle — 3 wines + my full Mob Movie Cookbook: https://franzesewine.com/goodfellas I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked about the cooking scene in Goodfellas. “Michael, did you really eat like that in prison?” People — I knew all those guys. All of them. And today I’m finally recreating that iconic prison dinner — the gravy (NOT sauce, and I’ll tell you why we called it gravy), the pasta, the whole scene. I’ll tell you what we REALLY ate on the inside, how close the movie got it, and the one thing they got completely wrong. While I’m cooking, I’m sipping my wine and answering your questions about the life. I did the time so you don’t have to — all you gotta do is watch. Salud! 0:00 — Did I Really Eat Like That in Good Fellas?1:04 — Gravy or Sauce? What My Family Called It1:51 — Paulie Vario's Razor Blade Was Real3:30 — Starting the Meat — Veal, Pork, and Beef5:13 — Al Dente — What Italy Taught Me About Pasta6:52 — Three Years in Solitary Living on Cup of Soup9:22 — The Garlic Scene From Good Fellas10:23 — The Time I Took My Wife to See Good Fellas13:04 — The Godfather "Went to the Mattresses" Scene17:22 — The Only Tomatoes I Use18:21 — I Started Drinking Wine at 10 in My Grandpa's Basement19:26 — What I Really Ate Behind Bars22:14 — Jeffrey MacDonald — What I Saw in His Eyes26:25 — The Year I Spent With the Menendez Brothers32:27 — The Most Authentic Mob Movie I've Ever Seen33:51 — Epstein Didn't Hang Himself — I Was in That Cell35:42 — Why the World Is So Intrigued With the Mob37:47 — The Gift Jimmy Burke Sent Me at Lewisburg40:53 — Diesel Therapy — The Worst Part of My Time Inside42:34 — Why My Wine Comes From Armenia47:07 — Digging In — In Prison, This Would Be Your Whole Day Ex-Mob Boss Recreates Goodfellas Prison Dinner While Telling Wild Prison Stories

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