Sit Down with Michael Franzese

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  My Daughter Finally Opens Up: The Tragedy, the Healing & Her Wedding Day 15.09.2026 58min

  🍷 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: [email protected] 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made 11.09.2026 33min

  🍷 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Democrat Insider Reveals Dark Truth About Who Controlled Biden, His Decline & Why They Hid It 08.09.2026 1t 36min

  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 Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Former Mob Boss Interviews Mark Wahlberg About Playing Greg Scarpa in 'By Any Means' 04.09.2026 34min

  🍷 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Ex-CIA Agent Reveals the Spy Skills That Give You an Unfair Advantage 01.09.2026 1t 39min

  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Mob Boss and the Christian Debate Champion — The Sit-Down Nobody Expected 26.08.2026 1t 37min

  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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Ex-Mob Boss Recreates Goodfellas Prison Dinner While Telling Wild Prison Stories 20.08.2026 52min

  🍝 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Death Row’s Head of Security Reveals the Truth About Tupac, Keffe D & Suge Knight 18.08.2026 53min

  People, this is a big one. I sat down with Reggie Wright Jr. — former Compton police officer and the head of security for Death Row Records — just DAYS before he takes the stand at the Keffe D trial for the murder of Tupac Shakur. I’ve been on trial five times, I know what a proffer is, I know what “queen for a day” means — and I asked Reggie the questions everybody wants answered. Was Keffe D really in the car? What about Diddy’s alleged million-dollar bounty on Tupac and Suge? Why were the rumors pointing at Reggie himself — and what does he say about the night his security team allegedly went unarmed? We get into all of it: Suge Knight, the Biggie investigation, the street code, and why talking on social media is putting people in prison. Death Row’s Head of Security Reveals the Truth About Tupac, Keffe D & Suge Knight #Tupac #KeffeD #SugeKnight #DeathRowRecords #michaelfranzese 00:00 Introduction: Did Keffe D do it? 00:40 The Unsolved Murders That Still Haunt Us 02:42 Tupac & Biggie — 30 Years of Questions 05:10 The Night Tupac Was Shot — How It Really Went Down 06:20 Diddy's Alleged Million-Dollar Contract 06:46 Queen for a Day — How Keffe D Confessed With Immunity 07:22 Then He Wrote a Book About It 07:56 Who Is Reggie Wright Jr.? — Compton Cop to Death Row Security 08:30 The No-Guns Rumor I Had to Ask About 09:00 Why Keffe D Is On Trial RIGHT NOW 12:05 The Sit-Down Begins — He Testifies Tomorrow 13:37 I've Been on Trial 5 Times — Let Me Explain the Proffer 16:09 They Offered Reggie a Proffer on the Biggie Case 17:24 Growing Up With Suge — How He Became Death Row's Security 19:20 Cops & Wiseguys — It Was the Same in New York 21:31 Defunding the Police Is Asinine — We Both Agree 22:59 His Relationship With Suge Today — And the "Free Keffe D" Problem 24:50 Talking Too Much — The Thing That Buries Everybody 26:00 The Rumor He Tried to Take Over Death Row — His Answer 28:30 The Big Question: Was Keffe D in the Car? 30:16 The Bounty — Was It Common Knowledge? 31:33 "You Disarmed the Bodyguards That Night" — Reggie Responds 35:42 Who Really Killed Biggie? 37:49 The Crips & Bloods Today 39:02 Why RICO Hit Us Harder Than the Gangs 40:48 Fentanyl Took a Kid in My Own House 41:14 Testifying Tomorrow — How Will the Defense Come at Him? 42:23 Can Keffe D Beat This Case? 45:27 My Father Held Up a Phone: "This Is a Cop" 47:36 An Open Invitation to Come Back After the Trial 47:58 My Final Thoughts on Reggie 50:08 Be Safe, People Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  If I Started a Mob Family Today, Here’s How I’d Run It 17.08.2026 32min

  People ask me all the time — Michael, if you started over today, what would you do differently? So let's have some fun with it. HYPOTHETICALLY. If I built a mob family in 2026, here's exactly how I'd run it. No drugs. No human trafficking — you're DONE. No phones — this thing in your pocket is a COP, and half the guys in prison put themselves there talking on it. I'd run it like a corporation. Quality people, vetted hard. Gambling? Our biggest business. The numbers, the unions, lawyers with clout on the payroll — and yeah, in the age of AI, I'd have the smartest tech guys in the room. We fell the first time because we got careless and the government got ahead of us. I wouldn't make that mistake twice. And I leave you with a question — everything that's illegal is not always immoral. Do you agree with that? Tell me in the comments. Faith-based, gut feeling, whatever it is — I want to hear your position. And people, let me say it one more time so nobody twists my words: I am NEVER going back to that life, and I'm not encouraging anybody — especially you young people — to go anywhere near it. This is entertainment. This is a hypothetical. That life only ends in prison or a grave. I know. I lived it. #Mafia #MichaelFranzese #Mob #OrganizedCrime #Hypothetical Former Mob Boss: How I'd Build a Family in 2026 0:00 Introduction & Personal Gratitude 1:03 Introduction & Personal Gratitude 1:43 The Downfall of the Mob 4:28 Mafia Origins 6:29 The Modern Framework 7:38 Personnel & Vetting 7:55 Tax Fraud & Community Support 9:08 Gambling & Numbers Operations 10:15 AI & Cyber Integration 10:53 Strict Family Rules 14:33 Leadership & Gotti (1996) 16:36 Fear vs. Love in Leadership 18:03 Handling Mob Envy 21:06 Union Control & Political Influence 24:01 Non-Negotiable Rules 25:52 Business Advice & Negotiation Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Mafia vs. Fauci: How Would The Mob Have Handled The Man Who Shut Down America? 06.08.2026 24min

  🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: 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. 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Anthony Fauci went in front of a grand jury and took the Fifth 111 TIMES. People — I’m a former mob boss. I took the Fifth. Frank Costello took the Fifth. Joey Gallo took the Fifth. You know why we did it? Because we were criminals, and we didn’t want to incriminate ourselves. So what’s HIS excuse? The man had a preemptive pardon going back to 2014. In this one I break it all down: why that pardon reaches back six years before COVID, what his own diary gave away, the time I DIDN’T take the Fifth — and got acquitted — and exactly how we would have handled a guy like this in my world. Believe me, we wouldn’t have needed to touch him. We got held accountable for everything. Gambling. Extortion. We paid. I did 8 years. So when does Washington pay? Watch how the mob would have handled Mamdani next: #Fauci #TheFifth #RandPaul #MichaelFranzese #Accountability Mafia vs. Fauci: How Would The Mob Have Handled The Man Who Shut Down America? 00:00 What Was Fauci Worried About?00:37 111 Times — What Happened While I Was Away01:20 The Preemptive Pardon — Why Go Back to 2014?02:36 His Own Diary Gave Him Away03:41 Rand Paul Wants Answers — People Lost Everything04:21 He Takes the Fifth — Let Me Explain How It Works04:55 Worse Than Any Mobster — How We Would Have Handled Him06:19 I Took One Shot — I Was One of the Suckers06:57 You Had a Pardon, Fauci. What Were You Afraid Of?07:37 Costello, Gallo & How They Jailed US for Silence09:06 The Pardon Doesn't Cover the States — Tuberville Steps Up09:55 A Dog and Pony Show Until Somebody Acts10:19 The Media Covered for Him — They Buried Trump11:00 Blood on His Hands — Where's the Accountability?12:39 This Isn't About Trump13:08 A Pardon and STILL Afraid to Talk15:17 The Time I Talked to the Feds — And Got Acquitted17:04 He Has Something to Hide — Don't Let Him Gaslight You17:47 Aaron Rodgers Called Him Out18:44 I Paid for What I Did. When Do They?19:26 111 Times. Unprecedented.19:58 Find Me on TikTok — Lives Twice a Week Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  My Last Sit Down With Sopranos Actor Vincent Pastore - RIP Vinny 04.08.2026 1t 6min

  🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: 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. 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ This is a sad one, people. My friend Vinny Pastore passed away over the weekend. 80 years old. You knew him as Big Pussy on The Sopranos, and as Angelo Ruggiero — a man I knew personally — in the 1996 Gotti movie. He nailed that role. I told him so to his face. Vinny was the real deal. A good actor, a better man. Always had time for a fan, a photo, an autograph. Everybody who knew him will tell you the same thing. Back in 2021 we sat down together — and I’m glad we did. He told me stories you won’t hear anywhere else: how Armand Assante turned into John Gotti right in front of him at the audition, holding Anthony Quinn’s baby on set, his years with Tony Sirico, and how a guy from the Bronx who thought he’d be dead by 50 ended up in the greatest show ever made. We’ve lost too many of these guys the past few years — Ray Liotta, Jimmy Caan, Tony Sirico, Burt Young — and now Vinny. So watch this one, enjoy him the way I got to, and keep his family in your prayers. Rest easy, Vinny. See you on the other side, my friend. 00:00:00 — Introduction00:00:54 — A Sad Day — We Lost My Friend Vinny Pastore00:02:26 — The Great Ones We've Lost — Liotta, Caan, Sirico & More00:04:24 — My 2021 Interview With Vinny — In His Memory00:04:57 — How Vinny Became Angelo Ruggiero — I Knew the Real Angelo00:06:52 — Armand Assante, Anthony Quinn & the Baby on Set00:07:53 — The Bar Scene — Nobody Ever Played It Better00:08:41 — Wine Under the Table — The Freedom They Had on Gotti00:09:51 — Touring the World With the Sopranos Cast00:12:30 — The Secret Casablanca Records Movie00:13:23 — I Was in That Office With My Father — Casablanca & Buddah Records00:14:56 — The Disco Days — My Clubs, His Clubs, Old New York00:18:07 — Why Vinny Walked Away From the Nightlife00:18:52 — "You're Going to Be Dead at 50" — The Night He Chose Acting00:20:22 — Broadway, Chicago & Beating Tony Darrow for the Part00:22:26 — Vinny's Acting Lesson — Take the Two-Line Role00:24:09 — I Asked Him: How Do You Remember All Those Lines?00:27:41 — Tony Sirico — Best Friends From Episode Two00:28:41 — The Day David Chase Called ME About The Sopranos00:30:27 — Getting Whacked — The Truth Behind the Funhouse Episode00:31:51 — "I'm Not Getting Rid of Vinnie" — Tony Fought for Him00:32:30 — Jimmy Caan Told Him: "You Got Robbed at the Emmys"00:33:26 — When The Sopranos Was a Sunday Night Lifestyle00:34:12 — "Don't Beg" — How He Filmed His Final Scene00:34:47 — Liz Hurley Loved My Father — The Mickey Blue Eyes Days00:36:49 — We Made a Commitment On Camera — A Series Together00:41:16 — Vinny & Danny Provenzano — Getting Sick, Making Peace00:43:29 — "I Was Scared, Man" — Vinny Opens Up About Cancer00:46:01 — My Father at 103 — Still a Bull00:49:12 — I Challenged Him to a Pizza Face-Off — Slices vs. Mulberry Street00:53:32 — Two Old School Guys, Two Commitments00:58:44 — "So We Did Grow Up"01:00:13 — Our Goodbye — Mob Movie Monday & See You Soon01:02:02 — My Farewell to Vinny — I'll See You on the Other Side #VincentPastore #TheSopranos #BigPussy #RIP #michaelfranzese My Last Sit Down With Sopranos Actor Vincent Pastore - RIP Vinny 🤝 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Tates Were Arrested. I Know Them Personally. Here’s the Truth. 29.07.2026 44min

  🛡️ See if your SSN is for sale right now. My sponsor Cloaked will tell you for free in 2 seconds here: https://cloaked.com/franzese 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Everybody’s talking about the Tates getting arrested in Miami. The UK charges. The extradition. Everybody’s got an opinion. Here’s the difference — I know them personally. I’ve sat with them in Romania. My wife and daughter were with me. I’ve read the case files. I spent 8 years inside the system these boys are about to face. And the British government? They came after ME too — over a photograph. So before you believe what they’re feeding you, watch this. In this one: what I’ve actually seen in the case, my own run-in with the UK, what really happens when the Marshals arrest you, what that Miami jail is like on the inside — and my prediction for exactly how this ends. And I’ll tell you like I always do — I deal in facts. If credible evidence comes out, I’ll be the first to say it. So far? Nobody’s shown me anything. Watch the full video and decide for yourself: are they guilty? 00:00 — Do I Believe the Charges? 00:32 — Croatia, a Wedding & 41 Years Married 01:44 — Why I Stayed Quiet on the Tates — Until Now 02:31 — The DeSantis Conspiracy Nonsense 03:16 — I Speak From Experience — 8 Years Inside 06:02 — Let's Be Honest About Their Remarks 07:17 — Inflammatory vs. CRIMINAL — Know the Difference 08:05 — I Know the Tates. Here's What I've Seen. 09:20 — I Read the Romania Case Files. Garbage. 10:23 — California & Florida — Cases That Fell Apart 12:19 — The UK Came After ME — Over a Photograph 14:17 — Do I Trust the UK? No. Here's Why. 15:08 — The OnlyFans Question Nobody's Asking 17:03 — Are They My Friends? Yes. Here's the Real Target. 17:36 — Society Failed Young Men — That's Why Tate Exists 19:03 — What the Gangbangers in Prison Taught Me 20:05 — Not One Documented Case 21:06 — The Phone & the Jewelry — I Did the Same Thing 23:01 — I Spent Two Nights in MCC Miami. It's a Hole. 24:01 — 202 Exonerated — When Prosecutors Lie 26:06 — The Educators Have Zero Credibility 27:21 — Is This Political? Absolutely. 28:44 — If I'm Wrong, I'll Say It 30:22 — Social Media Is a Sewer 31:24 — Rules of MY Comment Section 33:41 — Don't Trust Government — We Live in a Mafia Democracy 35:18 — To Everyone Calling Me Uncle Mike 36:28 — My Prediction: Extradition, Bail & the Plea 38:30 — "Call Me a Rat" — Setting the Record Straight 39:25 — Giuliani Prosecuted Me. Now We're Friends. 40:22 — How This Ends — They Extort Worse Than the Mob 41:42 — God Bless the Tates #AndrewTate #TristanTate #TateArrest #Miami #Extradition #michaelfranzese Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Mamdani Is Erasing Italians From New York — Former Mob Boss Responds 24.07.2026 26min

  Mamdani put out a map of New York's immigrant neighborhoods for the whole world to see — thirty of them. And he left MY people off of it. Little Italy. The Greeks. The Jewish neighborhoods. The Irish. Then he tells us it was an "accident." People — I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. And that's not all he did. After 55 years, he denied the Italian-American Civil Rights League the license to celebrate Columbus Day. The league Joe Colombo started. My father was part of that fight. I take this PERSONALLY. We built the subways. We built the bridges. We built that city. And this clown wants to erase us from it? Not on my watch. In this one I get into all of it — the map, the permit, the socialism scam they're running on all of you, and what we would've done about a guy like this back in the day. Mamdani Is Erasing Italians From New York — Former Mob Boss Responds 0:00 — "He's a Clown" — The Cold Open0:36 — Greetings From Switzerland (Wedding on Lake Como)1:35 — What Mamdani Did to the Italians2:29 — Two Offenses: The Map + The Columbus Day Permit3:09 — A Word From Franzese Wine4:14 — Little Italy Reacts (Street Interviews)5:57 — "It Wasn't an Accident" — Who Got Left Off7:06 — The Socialism Scam — Bigger Than Any Mob Scam9:02 — Reagan Was Right10:14 — "Mamdani Is a Fraud" — A New Yorker Speaks10:29 — Joe Colombo, the League & 55 Years of Columbus Day11:44 — A Word From Rumble Wallet13:26 — Take Responsibility — Why He Won14:11 — $37 Trillion — The Politicians Did This15:05 — Pelosi & the Insider Trading Game16:53 — Would the Mob Have Stood For This?18:14 — Why Do We Resent Billionaires?19:45 — Newsom Out West, Mamdani Out East20:35 — "You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself"22:09 — Wrap-Up + Ministry Monday Announcement24:00 — One Last Salute From Franzese Wine Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations Ranked By Ex Mobster 17.07.2026 38min

  🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: 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. 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I spent 20 years inside one of these organizations — now I’m ranking all of them. The cartels, the ’Ndrangheta, the Yakuza, the Triads, the Russians, the Irish, and yes, my own people. Four tiers: no rules no remorse, ruthless and relentless, dangerous with discipline, and business first, blood last. Where I put Cosa Nostra might surprise you.This isn’t just research. I did business with some of these groups, met their people on the street and in prison, and I’ve talked to the DEA and FBI agents who hunted them. One of these organizations shot down a military helicopter. One brings in $50 billion a year and most Americans have never heard of them. And one of them might be the most violent group on the face of the earth.Tell me where I got it wrong — and if I missed an organization, put it in the comments. I read them. 🤝 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? [email protected] 00:00 - Introduction: Built on Blood00:39 - My History With These Groups02:39 - The Rules: Four Tiers of Violence04:04 - Sinaloa Cartel06:18 - Jalisco New Generation Cartel07:50 - Medellín Cartel: Silver or Lead09:04 - MS-1310:21 - 'Ndrangheta: The Quiet Giant14:14 - Yakuza15:48 - The Irish Mob and the Westies17:13 - Whitey Bulger Was Working With Feds18:00 - Cosa Nostra: My Own People20:17 - Where I Put the Mafia23:18 - The Russian Mafia25:13 - Two Rankings for the Russians25:44 - The Triads27:38 - The Final Rankings28:05 - Tell Me Where I'm Wrong29:45 - Why I Do What I Do Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Critics Hate Citizen Vigilante. Audiences Love It. Former Mob Boss Explains Why 15.07.2026 41min

  🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Critics and audiences are at each other’s throats over Citizen Vigilante, and I’m going to tell you what this fight is really about. This isn’t a review like the critics give — I lived on the other side of this fantasy. A masked vigilante hunting down criminals the system let walk, including a mob boss? I know exactly what happens to a guy like that on the street, and it doesn’t end the way it does in the movie.I break down where this film really came from, why audiences love it, why critics can’t stand it, and the one thing both sides are missing. Plus the story of the time we went hunting for the Son of Sam — the cops came to us for help, and we gave it.Fair warning: it’s a rough, violent film, and I say so. Watch to the end for what I think you should actually do about a system that fails people. Critics Hate Citizen Vigilante. Audiences Love It. Former Mob Boss Explains 🤝 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? [email protected]:00 - Introduction: Critics vs Audiences at War00:50 - Mob Movie Mondays Is Coming Back01:30 - Today's Movie: Citizen Vigilante02:39 - The Real Story Behind This Film06:15 - Banned in Germany, Boosted by Musk07:34 - Let Me Ask You This08:31 - I'd Go to Jail Gladly11:33 - Let Me Defend the Critics13:11 - The Whole Fight Right There14:36 - Inside the Movie: Key Scenes16:41 - I Put Senators on the Spot18:54 - I Know the Government Is Shady20:06 - Vote Them Out of Office22:16 - The Real Root of Crime25:18 - The Movie's Brutal Climax27:01 - When We Hunted Son of Sam29:17 - The Numbers That Tell Everything32:58 - He's Dead in a Week34:36 - The Moment That Turned Me Off36:11 - You'd Have Loved Our Neighborhood37:36 - 50 Cents and the Hypocrites Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Which Politicians Could’ve Survived The Mob? Ex-Capo Decides 10.07.2026 34min

  ✅ 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/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I ranked 15 of the most well-known politicians in America on one question: could they have made it in the mob? This isn't political — Democrats and Republicans get sized up the same way I'd size up any guy on the street. Are they cunning? Calculated? Could they pull the trigger if they had to? Three categories: made man (or woman), survivor, or total mamaluke — forget about it. Some of these answers are going to surprise you. There's a president who never would've lasted a week, a governor who'd smooth his way in but end up with a bullet in the head, and a speaker of the house I believe could've pulled the trigger herself. I lived this life for 20 years — I know who makes it and who doesn't. Tell me who I got wrong, and give me a politician I missed. Salud. Which Politicians Could’ve Survived The Mob? Ex-Capo Decides 🤝 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Former Mob Boss Reveals What Real Mobsters Actually Ate 08.07.2026 36min

  ✅ 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/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ People ask me all the time: Michael, what did you guys actually eat? What was on the table? So today I’m giving you the real mob menu — not what Hollywood shows you, what these men actually loved. Al Capone’s favorite wasn’t a heavy tomato gravy — it was spaghetti with walnut sauce. Lucky Luciano, one of the most powerful Italians in history, preferred kosher pickles and corned beef from a Jewish deli. John Gotti? You’re not going to believe it — Cracker Barrel. I go through them all: Meyer Lansky’s cheese blintzes, Carlos Marcello’s Gulf seafood, Mickey Cohen’s French dip, Raymond Patriarca’s Sunday gravy, Joe Colombo’s table at Rao’s, the Genovese boss who kidnapped a chef because he couldn’t get a reservation, and Henry Hill — who told me himself his favorite was chicken soup. Then I’ll tell you what my father Sonny loved on Sundays, and my own go-to dish. I lived around these tables. Food was everything in that life. Hope I make you hungry. Salud. Former Mob Boss Reveals What Real Mobsters Actually Ate 🤝 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The World Was Wrong About America — And Now They’re Admitting It 30.06.2026 37min

  💸 Sign up for Freecash via my link: https://freecash.com/c/f27266?sub1=michaelfranzese_YT_r1 — get a $10 bonus! Start earning extra money online today. ✅ 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. 🛳️ Franzese Family Cruise - Sign Up Now: https://www.vacationofdreamstravel.com/GroupRegistrations/view/138596 🍷Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ The whole world just apologized to America — and I’m watching it happen from my hotel in Monaco. With the World Cup here, people are coming to the United States from the UK, France, Japan, South America, everywhere, and they’re saying the same thing: “We owe America an apology.” They were told it was dangerous. They were afraid they’d get mugged or shot. They believed the propaganda about my country. And then they got here — and found the most generous, warm, welcoming people they’d ever met. Fans paying for strangers’ meals. High school stadiums nicer than anything back home. A GoFundMe in Boston just to keep the players around longer. I’ve traveled all over the world, and I’ve been saying this for years: America is the greatest country on earth. It’s a shame it took the World Cup for the world to see it — and even more of a shame that so many people here still don’t. This is my take. God bless America. Salud. 🤝 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? [email protected] 00:00 - Introduction: We Owe America an Apology 01:06 - Reporting From Monaco 02:46 - Why the World Was Afraid to Come 05:30 - The Welcome That Stunned Them 07:40 - America Is Beautiful Coast to Coast 09:30 - The Boston GoFundMe 11:20 - How Spoiled We Are Back Home 13:40 - The People Who Hate This Country 15:10 - The Push for Socialism 18:00 - Where Has Socialism Ever Worked 20:30 - The Movement to Abolish Prisons 24:00 - Why Accountability Matters 26:30 - Why I Don't Believe in the Death Penalty 28:40 - The Spirit of 1776 31:00 - Unchecked Immigration Is Destroying Europe 33:00 - We Want America to Stay America Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Former Cop EXPOSES The Number One Killer Of Police 25.06.2026 58min

  I grew up hating cops. My father was Sonny Franzese, underboss of the Colombo family, and I spent my whole life on the opposite side of the badge. So when I sat down with Kevin Donaldson — a New Jersey cop who got shot on the job and came home a different man — we got into something most people never see: what that life really does to you. The mob and the badge look like opposite worlds, but the dark truth is what they have in common. The trauma. The things you can’t unsee. The hidden cost nobody warns you about. Kevin will tell you what cops carry that they never talk about, why he says it’s worse than anything I witnessed on the street, and how a man comes back from the edge. Two opposite sides of crime. One conversation. This one stayed with me. Salud. Mafia vs Police: Is One Life More Brutal Than The Other? Former Mob Boss and a Cop EXPOSE the Hidden Cost of That Life Former Cop EXPOSES The Number One Killer Of Police 00:00 - Introduction: The Cop's #1 Killer 01:06 - Welcome and Today's Guest 04:45 - Why Michael Hated Police 06:19 - Pain Into Purpose 07:56 - Suffering as the Path 09:33 - The Book on Jesus 09:47 - Coming Out the Other Side 11:25 - Total Surrender 13:06 - Surrender Means You're Not Alone 14:52 - Suicide: The Silent Epidemic 15:51 - Losing His Partner 16:44 - What Officers Face Daily 18:26 - Don't Compare Your Trauma 22:08 - The Closed Casket 23:14 - How Trauma Rewires the Brain 23:45 - EMDR Explained 24:46 - Judging Yourself Hardest 25:35 - The Domestic Call 26:35 - Trapped and Ready to Die 28:19 - The Aftermath at Home 29:36 - Becoming a Monster 30:09 - Learning to Manage It 30:55 - Why Men Stay Silent 35:08 - The Role of Faith 36:17 - Crying at Church 38:12 - Surviving Without God 39:00 - Finding Your Primary Identity 40:32 - Where to Start 42:38 - The Truth About Defunding Police 44:05 - Wolves, Sheep, Sheepdogs 45:48 - Lord of the Flies 46:50 - A Necessary Evil 48:16 - Morale of Police Today 49:26 - Are We Near the End Times? 51:20 - Closing Reflections Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Russian Mafia vs The Italian Mob: Expert REVEALS Which Organization Was More Brutal 23.06.2026 44min

  💸 Go to https://7minutetrade.com/ now to reserve your spot for the 7-Minute Income Summit. Discover how to potentially make $3,000-$5,000 monthly without complicated strategies, big risks, or sitting at a computer all day. Free LIVE virtual event June 25th & 27th. ₿ 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. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. Offer available to US residents only. Offer not available in New York State. Must be 18+. Offer is available for a limited time and for the first 500 wallets activated and funded. Details and full official rules available at http://rumble.com/promoofficialrules. 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I made millions with the Russians. For almost eight years they were my best business partners on the street — and then I went to prison, and it all went bad. So when I sat down with Joe Ciro, I had to get into it. Joe spent about ten years in Russia working with the CIA, he wrote the book on the Russian mob, and he knows that world from the inside out. We get into how the Russian mafia really operates, why their hardcore guys aren’t afraid of anything America can throw at them — no prison here comes close to what they survived over there — and how all of it compares to what we had in the Cosa Nostra. Here’s what surprised me: I always thought the Russians were the most violent. Joe makes the case the Mexican mafia and the Russians are more alike than either is to us, because they’re intertwined with their own governments in a way we never were. We get into Russian culture, the bribes that run everything, socialism, and where it’s all heading. This was a fascinating one. Salud! Russian Mafia vs The Italian Mob: Expert REVEALS Which Organization Was More Brutal 🤝 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? [email protected] 0:00 - Introduction: They Don't Fear Anything 1:08 - Who Is Joe Serio 2:58 - The Hardcore Russian Code 6:33 - Society Collapsed, Everything Up for Grabs 7:00 - KGB and the Crime Groups 8:39 - Who Was Really More Violent 10:30 - Russian and Mexican Mafia Are Alike 12:22 - Take Out Mexico, Put In Russia 14:12 - Bribes From the Age of Nine 15:13 - How Moscow Changed by 2019 16:46 - Stories From the Soviet Union 20:39 - They Knew How to Party 23:23 - The Sad Ending With My Partners 26:13 - Why the FBI Got It Wrong 29:30 - Russia, China, Iran: Different Worlds 31:14 - What I'd Tell People Championing Socialism 33:42 - The Digital Gulag 37:20 - Will the Ukraine War Ever End 40:26 - Putin Will Lose 43:32 - What Happens After Putin Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices