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Sit Down with Michael Franzese

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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27:48

Former Mob Boss Breaks Down Machiavelli — This Is...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/04/09

🔵 Get Exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here → https://nordvpn.com/franzese It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee!🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Anyone can lead when times are good. Real leadership shows up when everything is falling apart — and I know that firsthand. In this video I break down the most powerful leadership lessons from Machiavelli’s The Prince and overlay them with

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33:42

The Time a Jewish Scam Almost Took Down the Italian Mob

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2026/04/07

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Giuliani looked me in the eye in that courtroom and said, "Franzese, if I convict you on this case, you're getting 100 years." I looked right back and said, let's go for round five. This is the case nobody ever talks about — one of the very first RICO trials ever used against the mob, before the famous Commission case, before any of it. I was a defendant. I know exactly what

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28:44

Former Mob Boss Gives His Verdict on Peaky Blinders:...

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2026/04/02

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I’ve lived the life Tommy Shelby is trying to escape — and I’m telling you, this movie hits different when it’s not fiction to you. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man just dropped on Netflix and I gave it a full breakdown — the father and son tension, the Nazi counterfeit scheme, the demons that follow you when the life is over. I take you through my ten biggest takeaways from

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80:41

They’re Planning A Fake Alien Invasion - UFO Expert...

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2026/03/31

🗝️ Go to my sponsor https://venice.ai/franzese and use code franzese to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using my code will get you 20% off a pro plan. 🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I sit down with one of the most controversial and fascinating guests I’ve ever had on this channel — Dr. Steven Greer, the world’s leading UFO disclosure expert, retired physician, and founder of the Disclosure Project. Dr. Greer

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53:31

Mexican Presidential Insider Reveals How Cartels...

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2026/03/26

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Today I sit down with Enrique De La Madrid – son of a former Mexican president and one of the few people who actually understands how deep the corruption runs. We get into the cartels’ new gas tax scam that mirrors the exact gasoline hustle I ran back in the life, how cartels kidnap opposition and rig elections, why parts of the Mexican government are effectively in business

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73:36

Ex-Mob Boss & Ex-CIA Agent: Iran, Israel, and Epstein...

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2026/03/24

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I thought I understood Epstein, Israel, and the war in Iran… until this conversation. In this sit down, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou walks me through why he believes Epstein was working as an access agent, how Israel and Mossad might sit at the center of more than we think, why the Kennedy files still aren’t fully released 60 years later, and what’s really behind the Iran

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49:36

Ex-Mob Boss cooks chicken Parmesan (Secret Franzese...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/03/19

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/👨🏻‍🍳 Get The Exclusive Mafia Apron Here: https://franzesewine.com/apron💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I’m back in the kitchen people. And today I’m making one of my favorite old-school Italian-American dishes: chicken parmesan. This is the kind of meal that brings back memories of family, tradition, and the simple way we used to eat at home, and I’m showing you how I make it step by step the way it

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64:36

Anabel Hernández: The Woman the Cartels & Mexican...

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2026/03/17

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ The rule of law doesn’t exist in the shadows. We’ve all seen the headlines about El Mencho, El Chapo and the cartels, but the headlines are just the “front.” For twenty years, Anabel Hernández has been digging into the basement of the Mexican government—and what she found is a virus that’s reached the highest levels of power. She’s survived raids, assassination attempts, and a

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32:38

John Gotti: The Reason We Still Talk About the Mob

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2026/03/12

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ John Gotti turned murder into a media moment and a crime family into his personal stage. From the shots outside Sparks Steakhouse to a life sentence in a concrete box, this doc walks you through how a kid from Brooklyn with a chip on his shoulder became the last great “celebrity gangster” – and how that fame turned into a loaded gun pointed at his own head. You’ll see the

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84:57

Former Mob Boss Sits Down with the Narcos Agents Who...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/03/10

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Two DEA agents helped bring down Pablo Escobar, the man who once supplied up to 80% of the world’s cocaine and may have ordered 50,000 murders. Their real‑life story became the basis for Narcos, but Hollywood didn’t show everything. In this sit‑down, Steve Murphy and Javier Peña tell me what it was really like to hunt Escobar with a $300,000 bounty on their heads, what Los

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75:10

Iran: It’s Not Over Yet – Insider Warns What Comes Next

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/03/05

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Trump hit Iran’s nuclear sites and the world moved on, but people who know the regime are saying one thing: it’s not over. Ashkan is an Iranian insider with deep family ties to the Shah’s old security apparatus, and he lays out what Tehran is planning next – from hypersonic missiles and cheap killer drones to “missing” enriched uranium and how fast they could rebuild a

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66:15

DEA Legend Reveals the Most Disturbing Cartel Rituals...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/03/03

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ I’ve sat with mob bosses, cartel associates, and killers, but I have never been this educated on the Mexican cartels as I was in this sit down with DEA legend Mike Vigil. Mike spent 31 years with the DEA, rose to chief of international operations, worked undercover across Latin America, and has gone head‑to‑head with cartels from Colombia to Mexico. In this interview he

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34:24

Mafia vs. Epstein: How Would the Mob Handle a Predator?

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/26

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Everybody’s been asking me one question: “Michael, what would the mob have done with Jeffrey Epstein?” This could be a one‑sentence video – he wouldn’t have lasted – but today I’m going to walk you through exactly how that life would really look at a guy like Epstein. I explain the code we had about women and kids, why certain behavior was absolutely beyond the line, and why

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37:36

Former Mob Boss Breaks Down the El Mencho Mexican...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/24

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Mexico just took out El Mencho – and the cartels answered by setting cities on fire, trapping tourists and going head‑to‑head with the army. In this sit down I break down who El Mencho really was, how CJNG built its own “military,” what really happened in that operation, and why the retaliation looked like open war. I’ll tell you what the news isn’t explaining: how a

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51:55

The Epstein Files Keep Getting Worse: WHO Is...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/20

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ Today, I’m going to talk again about something I hate talking about, but we cannot let it go away – the Epstein matter. The latest DOJ dump is over 6 million documents, 180,000 images, nearly 2,000 videos, and they’re telling us there will be no more Epstein‑related prosecutions. How is that possible? In this video I give you my unbiased perspective on the new Epstein files –

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37:58

Ex Mobster Breaks Down the World’s Most Powerful...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/18

🟠 Protect your identity NOW! Get an exclusive NordProtect discount athttps://nordprotect.com/michaelfranzese. It’s risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Some mobsters lived for the headlines and the body count. Others made their fortune in the shadows and died in their own beds. A few could do both – and they’re the ones you really had to worry about. In this episode I take you inside that world and sort some of the most famous Cosa Nostra names into three buckets: gangster, racketeer,

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31:06

How to Be a Real Man’s Man: Former Mob Boss on the...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/13

🍷 Get Your Valentine's Day Bundle Here!: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ In this Valentine’s Day special, I’m not breaking down the life – I’m talking about the woman who walked into that world, pulled me out of it and never left, even when the government and the mob were trying to tear us apart. I share how we met, why we got married twice, how we survived eight years separated by prison walls, and why you don’t get through that without

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107:35

Is Red Light Therapy the Future of Health?

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/10

Go to https://myredlight.com, use code MJF25 for 25% off an individual product, or MJF30 for 30% off bundles.In this interview, I sit down with Jonathan Otto, world-renowned investigative journalist exposing root causes of chronic diseases like cancer and autoimmune disease—and how accessible and affordable at-home therapies deliver real results (including remission). Linked to hundreds of top doctors, he collaborates with well-known experts who rely on his data-driven protocols; thousands of

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29:59

The Latest Epstein Files Just Dropped: This is Beyond...

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/05

🔵 Get Exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here → https://nordvpn.com/franzese It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! The Epstein files just dropped another bomb. New emails and documents mention Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, Steve Tisch, Richard Branson, Sergey Brin, Ehud Barak, Prince Andrew and more – and people are going crazy over what it all means. In this video I walk you through the latest Epstein document dump, what’s actually in there, and what’s not. I

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87:08

Boss of Hells Angels: George Christie REVEALS All

Sit Down with Michael Franzese ·

2026/02/03

🍷 Have you tried my wine yet?: https://yt.franzesewine.com/💪🏼 Join Franzese Family: https://michaelfranzese.com/family/ George Christie is back. Last time we compared the Hells Angels to the Mafia and you flooded us with questions about structure, money, and why RICO destroyed Cosa Nostra but never quite broke the Angels. In this new sit‑down, George and I go deeper into what the club really is, why prosecutors keep trying to call it a criminal organization, and how those RICO cases actually

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