Sit Down with Michael Franzese

🥃 Franzese Brandy — 10, 20 & 30 year Armenian brandy, now available: https://franzesebrandy.com/ People, this one’s different. It’s Veterans Day, and I want to talk about a man who was a veteran before he was anything else — and who understood my old world better than most of the guys who were in it. Winston Churchill failed school. Failed the army exam twice. Got captured in a war and escaped with a price on his head. Planned one of the worst military disasters of the century, lost his job over it, and went to the trenches instead of going home. Spent ten years warning people about Hitler while they laughed at him. Then saved the free world. Then got fired for it — and took it with a joke. In my world, there were racketeers — the guys who could think three steps ahead — and gangsters — the guys who did the hard thing when it counted. The smart ones were both. Churchill was both. And he did it all in a bow tie. I walk through his whole life, and I’ll tell you where I saw the same rules in mine: owning it when things go wrong, using the years when nobody’s listening, how to walk into a room prepared, and how to lose with class. And we get to Yalta — three men at one table deciding the whole world. I’ve been to a lot of sit-downs. That was the biggest one there ever was. The story goes that Stalin poured him a glass of Armenian brandy at that table, and Churchill loved it. That’s the tradition our Franzese Brandy comes from — and it’s why I poured one for this. You don’t do shots at this. You sit down with people who matter, you slow it down, and you talk straight. From one boss to another. To everyone who served — thank you. Winston Churchill Was a Gangster in a Bow Tie — Former Mob Boss Breaks Down His Life #WinstonChurchill #VeteransDay #MichaelFranzese #FranzeseBrandy #Leadership Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🍷 Get your own Thanksgiving Special Bundle: https://franzesewine.com/products/thanksgiving-special-bundle 📲 Text me — Do you stuff your turkey? And if you don’t know where to start, tell me where you are and my team will try to help: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Always has been. Four days, no presents, nothing to do but eat. And it’s one of the two days a year I cook — I don’t want anybody in my kitchen. I do it all. Today, the turkey, and the part everybody actually waits for: my grandmother’s stuffing. And I’m going to tell you the secret right now — I don’t stuff the bird. I’ll show you why, and I promise you it tastes like it came from inside the turkey. Four ingredients. My grandmother would’ve loved how easy they make it now. While it cooks we talk. Eight Thanksgivings I spent in prison. How the crew did the holiday — all the capos, the boss at the table, the week before, because the day itself was for family. My father, who told everybody he was the best cook and never cooked a thing. The night he made me check the check at my own cousin’s restaurant. And why, for the last few years, we’ve been frying the bird — and you should too. Whatever you’ve got going on with whoever this year, put it aside. Sit down, eat, be thankful. For those of you who can’t be with family — I get it. I’ve been there. There’s still something to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving, people. Have a glass on me. #Thanksgiving #Turkey #Stuffing #MichaelFranzese #MafiaStyle00:00 My Favorite Holiday — And How the Mob Celebrated It 00:39 Four Days, No Presents, Nothing to Do But Eat 01:46 I Cook Twice a Year. This Is One of Them. 02:33 Eight Thanksgivings in Prison 02:58 The Secret: I Don't Stuff the Bird 03:13 The Broth — Chicken Legs and Onions 04:11 Butter the Pan. On a Holiday, You Let It Go. 04:54 Mushrooms, Peppers, Onions. That's It. 05:53 What Thanksgiving Actually Means 06:52 Me and My Brother — The Only Two Survivors 08:07 My Family's Not Big on Turkey — So We Make a Roast 09:02 Salt, Pepper & Why I Don't Bother With Fresh Bread 09:38 A Glass of White While I Cook 11:51 Put the Politics Aside This Year 12:35 Sitting Down With My Brother Again 15:23 I Wish They'd Made Me the Cook in Prison 16:25 My Father — The Best Cook Who Never Cooked 17:07 Why the Broth Replaces the Turkey Juices 17:27 How the Crew Did Thanksgiving 18:23 "Check the Check — Your Cousin's a Thief" 19:50 Text Me Your Thanksgiving Memories 20:10 Mixing the Stuffing 22:39 Was Anything Special About the Mob on Thanksgiving? 23:34 I Wanted to Be the Best Mobster I Could Be 25:09 The Taste Test 26:11 Yams With Marshmallows — Only Me and My Daughter 26:55 Stuffing, Done — Mob Style 29:37 Basting the Turkey — Keep It Simple 30:15 Text Me "TURKEY" for the Baste Recipe 30:37 The Glory of the Turkey Is the Drumstick 30:52 Honestly? We've Been Frying It for Years 31:56 Three Hours Later — The Bird Comes Out 32:28 Stuffing Goes in the Juices, Not the Bird 33:10 Three Whole Days to Enjoy 34:52 Nice and Brown — Don't Overcook It 35:27 Happy Thanksgiving — For Those Who Can't Be Home 📧 Interested in partnerships? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✅ 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. 📲 Text me — how are you preparing? And if you don’t know where to start, tell me where you are and my team will try to help: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, I don’t do emergency sit-downs. This is one. Over the last few days, people I trust — Dan Bongino, Glenn Beck, and governments across Europe telling their citizens to stock up for days or even weeks — have been warning about the real possibility of a cyber attack on our water systems and our power grid. We’ve already had a taste of it this summer. And I sat with Donald Trump Jr. I’m hearing things from people higher up. It’s very possible. I’m not telling you to panic. I’m telling you what I told my own daughter: if daddy knows something and doesn’t tell you, you’d never forgive me. So here’s what I’m doing. I went out and bought solar-powered crank radios — if the phones and TV go down, that’s how you’ll hear what’s happening. Battery lights. Water in glass. Canned food you can eat without a stove. Matches. Extra batteries. Blankets, because winter’s coming. Walkie-talkies so I can reach my family. None of it is expensive. None of it is something I’m selling — I bought it on Amazon like everybody else. The reason I’m sitting here alive and free is because I was prepared for something I knew could happen. That’s not fear. That’s common sense. China has operatives in this country. Iran is angry. Our politicians care about themselves first. So be a realist. If you need help figuring out what to get, comment or text me. I’ll have my team do the research. And if we need to do another one of these with a full list, we will. Be prepared, people. Not scared. Prepared. [chapters] #CyberAttack #BePrepared #PowerGrid #MichaelFranzese #Emergency 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 📧 Interested in partnerships? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⚕️Give your liver the support it deserves with Dose. Go to https://dosedaily.co/FRANZESE or use code FRANZESE at checkout for 35% off your first subscription. ✅ 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. 📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 People, a lot of you asked me to review The Westies, the new MGM+ show about the Irish crew out of Hell’s Kitchen. So I watched the first episode — and before I tell you what I think of the show, let me tell you something straight. I knew the Westies. I did business with some of them. Jimmy Coonan did time with my father and I met him many times in the visiting room. He was a stand-up guy. Wild — but stand-up. The show gets the atmosphere right. The violence is brutal, and it should be, because that’s how it was. The acting is the strongest part. But there’s a myth I want to kill: the Gambinos weren’t scared of the Westies. We could have wiped them out. The Westies worked for us. And I’ll tell you what I believe really happened to Mickey Spillane, how the Javits Center put real money on the table, and why there was never an Irish Commission — the same reason I gave you last week. And one more thing. About ten years ago, a man who did time with Jimmy Coonan came to me before he died, with a message from Jimmy about a major case that’s never been solved. I put him on tape. I’ve sat on it for a decade. I might finally tell that story. If you watched The Westies — did they get the Irish-Italian relationship right? What did they miss? Text me. And if there’s a show you want me to review next, tell me. #TheWesties #IrishMob #Mafia #MichaelFranzese #Review00:00 The Westies Weren't Big. They Were Violent. 00:43 Welcome — You Asked Me to Review This One 01:25 I Knew the Westies. I Did Business With Them. 01:45 The Tape I've Sat On for 10 Years 04:52 The Show Is Great — Here's Why 10:39 The Man Who Ran Hell's Kitchen 11:36 Nobody Called Themselves "The Westies" 12:08 Mickey Spillane, Roy DeMeo & the Favor 12:58 They Did Contract Work for Us 13:32 The Javits Center — Where the Real Money Was 13:51 Why Every Developer Had to Deal With Us 21:31 Why There Was Never an Irish Commission 21:45 The Balancing Act — Keep the Italians Happy 22:40 Featherstone Flipped. Coonan Got 75 Years. 22:54 I Walked Away. Most of Them Didn't. 23:36 The Acting Is the Strongest Part 24:04 My Verdict — Worth Your Time 24:22 Want the Real Story? Read the Book. 25:24 If I Reveal What I Know — You'll Be Shocked 26:08 Look Where This Life Ends Up 27:14 "You Betrayed Your Oath" — My Answer 31:29 Text Me — What Did the Show Get Wrong? 32:44 God Bless — See You Next Time Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

📲 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. 📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔬 If you're looking for one simple product that actually makes a difference, that's The Great, visit https://CalderaLab.com/FRANZESE and use code FRANZESE for 20% off your first order. ✅ 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.📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 A lot of prosecutors came after me. Giuliani put me on trial and lost. This man is the only one who ever got me. Ed McDonald ran the federal strike force in Brooklyn — and when I took that plea, it was his case I was pleading to. Ten years. He’ll tell you what he told his team at the time: “Ten years will keep him on ice.” And if his name sounds familiar — he’s the prosecutor in Goodfellas. He played himself. He’s the man who flipped Henry Hill, made the Lufthansa case, and went after Jimmy Burke with a witness nobody was supposed to believe. We get into all of it: why I took the plea and the misstep Giuliani made that pushed me there, what the agents told me on the plane, my father’s hatred for him, how he turned Henry Hill, what it was like watching Goodfellas with the real Henry, and the Gotti investigation he ran before anyone had the case. Forty years ago, this man and I were on opposite sides of a courtroom. Today we’re on the same side of a table. I never thought I’d say that. Face to Face With the Prosecutor Who Put Me Away | The Real ‘Goodfellas’ Prosecutor #MichaelFranzese #Goodfellas #HenryHill #EdMcDonald #RICO 🤝 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

🥘 Join Me in the kitchen for the cookbook release, a live conversation, and your best questions: http://cookbook.michaelfranzese.com/ 📲 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? [email protected] Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Free Insider Training Event: Thursday, October 15th at 3pm ET Register here - https://michaelsinsiders.com Online event, 100% free, learn how to find and copy these insider trades. 📲 Text me your thoughts about this Interview: https://my.community.com/michaelfranzese (424) 325 0921 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices