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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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- Today26 min
George Soros: Everyone Knows The Name — Nobody Knows What He’s Done
I’ve spent my life around people who knew how to make money when everything fell apart. So when I started looking into George Soros, I recognized something. One currency collapses and he walks away richer. A nation’s economy breaks and his name turns up again. Then again. And again. At some point you stop calling it luck and start asking if it’s a pattern. In this one I walk through the crises — the Bank of England, the countries that never recovered — and I lay out what keeps repeating. I’m not here to tell you what to think. I’m here to show you the playbook and let you connect the dots. Because once you see how this works, you can’t unsee it. This is one of the most important things I’ve looked into, and I want you to watch it with your own eyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 days ago42 min
This Podcast Made Me Feel Like I Was Back In The Mob
I just landed and walked straight into this one — sat down with the Hot Cakes and Hot Takes guys and we went deep. I tell the story of the day I visited my father in Leavenworth and the one question he asked me before I got made, the answer that changed my life. I explain what the oath actually is, because people get it wrong. And I get into something most people have never heard: back in 1982, I bought into Trump Tower in cash with a Russian partner whose brother was KGB — and forty years later, the FBI came knocking, trying to turn that deal into their Russia connection. I'll tell you exactly what I told them. There's a lot more in here — solitary, the war that almost took me with it, and yeah, they even had me do the "funny how" scene. This one's got it all. This Podcast Made Me Feel Like I Was Back In The Mob Former Mob Boss EXPOSES The Real Reason The FBI Targeted Trump Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago31 min
Sean Hannity vs. Michael Franzese: He Wouldn't Let It Go
🛌 Thank you Helix Sleep for sponsoring! Visit https://helixsleep.com/michaelfranzese to take advantage of their Memorial Day Sale Exclusive Partner Offer and get 27% Off Sitewide! 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Sean Hannity got things out of me in this sit-down that I haven't told anyone in 30 years. He asked me straight up if I ever saw a murder, and I gave him an answer I've never given on camera before. We got into the Marilyn Monroe story my father took to his grave — why Bobby Kennedy called J. Edgar Hoover and told him to bury my dad. I told Sean how the FBI took $33 million from me in Austria — they basically robbed the money I robbed from them. And the night in 1991 that should've ended me, the one that 13 of my guys didn't survive. This is the longest conversation Sean and I have ever had, and he didn't let me off the hook on anything. Sean Hannity vs. Michael Franzese: He Wouldn't Let It Go 🤝 Book 1 on 1 Call With Me: https://michaelfranzese.com/book-1-on-1-call/ 🔥 Check out my store: https://store.michaelfranzese.com/ 🎙️ Michael Franzese Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Eo39qb 📧 Interested in partnerships? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com 00:00 - Introduction: My Father Was Sonny 01:46 - Marilyn Monroe And My Father 02:25 - Why Hoover Buried The Mafia 06:20 - Saw Guys Get Killed 07:13 - First Time Admitting It 07:36 - Too Many Times 07:50 - Things That Still Haunt Me 09:51 - The Government Robs Worse 11:52 - 29 Months In Solitary 13:02 - $33 Million In Austria 14:51 - They Robbed It Back 15:27 - Your Smile Gives It Away 17:23 - I Wasn't Looking For That 18:33 - What Trump Told Me 19:35 - Giuliani Threatened Me 100 Years 20:36 - My Father Got Railroaded 22:45 - No Legitimate Way Out 23:48 - Your Father Went Along 24:43 - Writing My Own Death Warrant 25:25 - The Reason I'm Still Alive 28:13 - Never Told This Story Before 29:18 - 15 Agents Out Of Nowhere 29:50 - The War That Saved Me 30:06 - Join michaelfranzese.com/family Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago48 min
From JFK to the iPhone: 75 Years Through the Eyes of a Former Mob Boss
I was born in 1951. I was made in 1975. And on May 27th, I’ll be 75 years old. Three quarters of a century on this planet. I lay in bed the other night and I started thinking about everything I’ve lived through — every president, every war, every cultural shift, every mob story I was in the middle of. So I sat down and I wrote it all down decade by decade. JFK’s assassination. Vietnam. Joe Colombo getting shot. Halloween night, 1975. The Commission trial. Doing my time. 9/11. The Sopranos finale. COVID. Right up to today. Some of it’ll make you smile. Some of it’ll make you angry. All of it shaped who I am. Consider this my thank you to all of you who’ve been with me on this ride. And if you’ve been around long enough, maybe it’ll bring back some memories of your own. From JFK to the iPhone: 75 Years Through the Eyes of a Former Mob Boss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 25m
Former Mob Boss and a Colombo Soldier: Expose the Truth Behind the Last Mob War
I sat down with Greg Scarpa Jr. last week, and he told me a story I almost couldn’t believe. Now I’m sitting down with a second man who lived it from the other side, and he’s corroborating every word. Frankie Steele was a Colombo associate during the Persico-Orena War. He was 21 years old in the safe houses, in the wired cars, in the murder trials that put him away for over a decade. He’ll tell you exactly how the war started, how an FBI agent named Lin DeVecchio fed Greg Scarpa Sr. the addresses of the men they were trying to kill, why every trial after his ended in acquittal, and why my friend Michael Sessa is still rotting in a prison cell 34 years later for a murder he didn’t commit. This is the puzzle nobody could finish telling — until now. Two of the three living men who know the whole story are sitting in front of you. Listen to what they have to say. Former Mob Boss and a Colombo Soldier: Expose the Truth Behind the Last Mob War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 37m
He Was Cellmates With The 9/11 Mastermind — And Tried Warning The FBI About It
🍾 Join Me In Celebrating My 75th Birthday, Sign up for this free event here!: http://celebrate.michaelfranzese.com/ 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Greg Scarpa Jr. and I got made the same night — Halloween 1975. I hadn’t seen him in 45 years. Now he’s out, and he’s telling me a story I almost couldn’t believe — except every piece of it checks out. While Greg was locked up in MCC New York, he was housed next to Ramzi Yousef, the man who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Greg got close to him. Yousef started passing him written notes through the cracks in the wall — plans to blow up planes, kill prosecutors, take down the World Trade Center. Greg gave it all to the FBI. They had photographs, kites, recorded calls. Then they buried him in supermax for 12 years and made him out to be a liar. Why? Because Greg was about to expose a corrupt FBI agent who’d put dozens of our guys in prison. You tell me what kind of country does this. Listen to what he says and decide for yourself. He Was Cellmates With The 9/11 Mastermind — And Tried Warning The FBI About It 🤝 Book 1 on 1 Call With Me: https://michaelfranzese.com/book-1-on-1-call/ 🔥 Check out my store: https://store.michaelfranzese.com/ 🎙️ Michael Franzese Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Eo39qb 📧 Interested in partnerships? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago43 min
The Ultimate Mafia Dream Team — Picked by a Former Mob Boss
I lived that life for over 20 years. I was a Capo Regime in the Colombo family. So when people kept asking me — Michael, if you could build your dream mafia crew from movie characters, who’d be on it? — I figured we’d have some fun with it. Think of it like fantasy football for the mob. In this one, I draft my perfect crew: the boss, the underboss, the consigliere, the capo, the enforcer, the soldier, and the money guy. Don Corleone, Tony Soprano, Sonny from A Bronx Tale, Luca Brasi, Donnie Brasco, Tony Montana, Hyman Roth, Phil Leotardo — all the heavy hitters. Some of these picks were close calls. Some I’d bet my life on. Tell me in the comments who you’d put on your dream team — and who I got wrong. The Ultimate Mafia Dream Team — Picked by a Former Mob Boss 🛡️Get free life insurance quotes from America’s top insurers and start saving today with Policygenius: http://policygenius.com/franzese Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video! 🍕 Celebrate My 75th birthday with Slices Pizza, a Bottle of Franzese wine, and a Special Seat at my table!: https://franzesewine.com/75 00:00 - Introduction: The Mafia Dream Team 03:21 - The Seven Roles Explained 09:43 - The Boss: Who Sits at the Head? 11:48 - My Dream Boss 13:21 - The Underboss: Right-Hand Man 15:35 - Who Steps Up If the Boss Goes Down? 17:24 - The Consigliere: The Counselor 22:51 - The Capo: Street Boss 27:13 - The Enforcer: When Words Don't Work 31:05 - The Soldier: Boots on the Ground 33:36 - Why I Wouldn't Make My Own Crew 36:11 - The Money Guy: The Earner 40:08 - Reviewing the Full Dream Team Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago38 min
Which Hollywood Mob Actors Could’ve Been Real Gangsters? Ex-Capo Decides
🍕 Celebrate My 75th birthday with Slices Pizza, a Bottle of Franzese wine, and a Special Seat at my table!: https://franzesewine.com/75 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I spent over 20 years in that life. I know exactly what it takes to survive — and what gets you killed. So when I watch these Hollywood actors play mob roles, I always ask myself the same question: could they have actually made it on the street? In this one, I take 24 of the most iconic mob actors ever — Brando, Pacino, De Niro, Pesci, Gandolfini, Sirico, Stallone, Imperioli, Cillian Murphy, all of them — and I put them in three categories: Made Man, Survivor, or Forget About It. Some of these guys I knew personally. Some I only know by reputation. But you might be surprised who I think could have actually pulled it off — and who wouldn’t have lasted a week. Tell me in the comments who you think I got right and who I got wrong. Which Hollywood Mob Actors Could’ve Survived That Life? 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? partnerships@michaelfranzese.com Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
About Sit Down with Michael Franzese
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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