Sit Down with Michael Franzese

Michael Franzese
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From a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family to a man transformed by faith, Michael Franzese shares his extraordinary journey like no one else can. In Sit Downs with Michael Franzese, Michael dives into raw, unfiltered stories from his life in the mob, his path to redemption, and the lessons he’s learned about faith, family, and overcoming life’s struggles. With gripping interviews and practical insights, this podcast will inspire, challenge, and entertain

  1. 17 hr ago

    Democrat Insider Reveals Dark Truth About Who Controlled Biden, His Decline & Why They Hid It

    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

  2. 4 days ago

    Former Mob Boss Interviews Mark Wahlberg About Playing Greg Scarpa in 'By Any Means'

    🍷 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

  3. 1 Sept

    Ex-CIA Agent Reveals the Spy Skills That Give You an Unfair Advantage

    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

  4. 26 Aug

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

    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

  5. 20 Aug

    Ex-Mob Boss Recreates Goodfellas Prison Dinner While Telling Wild Prison Stories

    🍝 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

  6. 18 Aug

    Death Row’s Head of Security Reveals the Truth About Tupac, Keffe D & Suge Knight

    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

  7. 17 Aug

    If I Started a Mob Family Today, Here’s How I’d Run It

    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

  8. 6 Aug

    Mafia vs. Fauci: How Would The Mob Have Handled The Man Who Shut Down America?

    🍷 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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From a high-ranking member of the Colombo crime family to a man transformed by faith, Michael Franzese shares his extraordinary journey like no one else can. In Sit Downs with Michael Franzese, Michael dives into raw, unfiltered stories from his life in the mob, his path to redemption, and the lessons he’s learned about faith, family, and overcoming life’s struggles. With gripping interviews and practical insights, this podcast will inspire, challenge, and entertain

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    Michael Franzese
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    167
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