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October 08 Former Mob Boss: She Deserves to Die. I’m Still Against Executing Her.
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
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36 min
October 06 My Daughter Told Me the TRUTH About Growing Up With a Mobster Dad
My oldest daughter Miq sat down with her Uncle John a few weeks ago. She hadn’t seen him in years. Now he texts her five times a day. So I figured it was my turn to sit across from her.
I was in and out of prison until she was nine years old. I always thought I was there for my kids, even from inside. Miq told me the truth — how growing up with a father who kept disappearing affected her relationships, her trust, and what she thought a good marriage was supposed to look like. She didn’t even realize it until her late twenties.
We get into all of it: 41 years with her mother, and the time she thought we might not make it. Why she wishes she’d seen her mom be more affectionate. Her own rough first year of marriage, and why she refuses to be blindsided the way her mother was. Traditional roles — and yes, I said what I said.
And I admit something on camera I’ve never really talked about: I wasn’t a good father to my two daughters from my first marriage. That’s on me. No excuses. I’m praying that changes.
Our family has been offered reality shows more than once. We always said no. This is as real as it gets.
My Daughter Told Me the TRUTH About Growing Up With a Mobster Dad
0:00 Introduction
2:43 My Daughter, Miquelle
6:02 What Miq Learned Sitting Down with My Brother John
8:52 On Trial with Giuliani When Her Mom Got Pregnant
11:24 Indicted Again a Month After She Was Born
14:01 How My Prison Years Affected My Daughter
17:54 Why Kids Need a Mother AND a Father
20:30 Becoming a Father Figure to My Sons-in-Law
23:32 “Anybody I Marry Has to Have a Misdemeanor”
26:47 What 41 Years of Marriage Taught My Daughter
31:01 Why My Wife and I Argue (Two Glasses of Wine)
32:41 The Rough Patch in Our Marriage
34:36 Marriage Is Tough: Money and Trust
35:45 My Regrets with My Daughters from My First Marriage
46:26 Don’t Keep Your Wife in the Dark About Money
49:37 Men and Women Are Equal but Have Different Roles
53:13 Men, Do Your Job: Provide and Protect
56:30 Praying for a New Grandchild
58:38 Why My Family Turned Down a Reality Show
60:30 You Asked Me to Call You “Friends”
62:36 Final Thoughts: Be Safe, Be Healthy
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1 hr 8 min
October 01 Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 3)
People, this is it — the final sit-down with my brother John. Three weeks ago we went back to the house we grew up in. Last week he told you why he wore the wire. This week we go to the years in between: when my brother was in the life too, during the war, and our father was doing everything he could to get him made.John was five years sober when he went to see dad. Dad told him, “Son, I’m proud of you.” Took two steps. Then: “It’s a shame you ruined your whole life, though.” That’s our father. And if you knew him, you know he meant both.We get into the night they called John down to the club during the war — no gun, nobody there, and a captain telling him “your father can’t help you anymore.” What dad said from prison when John asked him what to do. The rumor our mother started in a visiting room that almost got our father hurt. The meeting at a lawyer’s office where dad tried to bring John in — and why it never happened. Chicky, Louie, Frankie, and some stories about dad that still make us laugh.And my brother says something in here I want you to hear: 24 years, and he hasn’t raised his hands or wished harm on a single person.I couldn’t sit down with my father anymore. So I sat down with his other son. If you’ve watched all three, thank you — this one was for us.Part 1 and Part 2 are linked below if you’re just finding this.#MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #ColomboFamily #MobFamily
Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 3)
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1 hr 23 min
September 29 Why the Irish Mob Died and the Mafia Didn’t
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People, let me set this straight right now. The first real organized crime gangs in New York weren’t Italian. They were IRISH — decades before my people ever got off the boat. The Forty Thieves, the Dead Rabbits, the Gophers, the Hudson Dusters. They owned the docks, the unions, and City Hall. So here’s my question: if the Irish were first, why is there no Irish Commission? Why was there no Irish Luciano?
I knew these guys. I did business with the Westies. Jimmy Coonan was a stand-up guy — and I know more about Jimmy than most people do. Some of that I’ll get to. And I’ll correct a few things the legend gets wrong: the Gambinos didn’t partner with the Westies out of fear, and Fat Tony wasn’t the real power behind that deal.
We go through all of it — Hell’s Kitchen, Whitey Bulger and the biggest law enforcement scandal in mob history, Danny Greene in Cleveland — and then I give you my verdict. Because the answer to who won isn’t about who was tougher. A feared crew dies with its leader. An organization replaces him by Tuesday. That’s the whole difference.
#IrishMob #Westies #Mafia #WhiteyBulger #MichaelFranzese #OrganizedCrime
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00:00 The Irish Were First. So Where's the Irish Commission?00:35 Welcome — And a Quick Word on the Diddy Verdict01:33 Were the Westies Really an Organization?02:20 Why There Was Never an Irish Luciano03:38 What I Know About Jimmy Coonan04:05 The Forty Thieves — New York's First Gang Was Irish04:42 Dead Rabbits, Whyos, Gophers — They Owned the Street and City Hall05:44 The Westies — Hell's Kitchen, Coonan & Featherstone06:20 We Didn't Partner With Them Out of Fear06:56 Fat Tony Wasn't the Real Power. The Chin Was.08:15 A Feared Crew Dies With Its Leader08:47 What Made the Italians Different — The System10:14 Jimmy Got 75 Years. The Westies Went With Him.13:22 Whitey Bulger — Boss and FBI Informant15:00 Danny Greene and the Cleveland War16:13 My Verdict — Hierarchy Beats the Neighborhood Crew17:39 Why the Family Survives the Boss18:48 Could a Non-Italian Ever Be Fully Inside?20:28 Did We Use the Irish for Work We Wanted Distance From?21:51 Were the Westies Really Independent?23:14 They Had Killers and City Hall. We Built a System.23:53 Text Me — Who Was More Powerful?24:33 A Glass of Wine and a Slice25:56 A Warning for the Ladies — Please Be Safe29:42 Franzese Fam, Lives & Ministry Monday31:25 I'm Not Going to Hell for Anybody
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36 min
September 25 Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Richest Mobsters Ever
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In 1986, Fortune magazine put out a list of the 50 biggest mafia bosses in America — a Fortune 500 for my world. I was number 18. The youngest man on the list. I found out about it sitting in a federal prison in Arizona, when the lieutenant called me into his office and locked me down for a week over it.
Here’s the thing, people — they got it wrong. Those were journalists guessing from the outside. They never saw the cash. They didn’t know who was kicking up to who. And in our world, the smartest earners were invisible on purpose.
So today you’re getting the list they couldn’t write: the 10 richest mobsters of all time, ranked by a guy who was on the inside, knew how the money actually moved, and made the list himself. Capone, Lansky, Luciano, Costello, Carlo Gambino, Fat Tony, Marcello, Trafficante, Rothstein and Gotti — and I’ll tell you my number one and exactly why it’s not close.
And yes, I answer the question you’re all going to ask: where would I rank on that list, and what it really cost me.
Tell me in the comments who I got wrong — if somebody makes a good enough case, we’ll do a part two.
Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Richest Mobsters Ever
00:00 The List Fortune Magazine Couldn't Write
00:52 1986 — They Locked Me Down Over That Article
02:18 I Was #18. The Youngest Man on the List.
02:44 Why They Got It Wrong
03:30 My Father's Reaction
05:08 Nobody Really Knows the Numbers — Here's Why
06:55 Arnold Rothstein — He Made Crime a Business
07:46 Al Capone — $100 Million in the 1920s
08:46 Lucky Luciano — The Architect
10:02 Meyer Lansky — "Bigger Than U.S. Steel"
11:02 Frank Costello — The One I Modeled Myself After
12:14 Carlo Gambino — The Richest Man You Never Heard About
13:34 Fat Tony Salerno — Fortune Said #1. I Disagree.
16:33 "Give These Mamalukes a Job" — My Day With Fat Tony
19:10 Carlos Marcello — Half of Louisiana Answered to Him
20:06 Santo Trafficante — The Mob's Foreign Minister
21:01 John Gotti — The Flash Is What Kills You
22:33 "What About You, Michael?"
23:06 The Jet, the Helicopter & the Houses
24:07 What It Actually Cost Me
26:15 My #1 — And It's Not Close
28:12 My #2
30:02 The Only Wealth That Lasts
#Mafia #AlCapone #MeyerLansky #JohnGotti #MichaelFranzese #Mob #Top10
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34 min
September 23 Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 2)
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People, last week my brother and I went back to the beginning. This week we get to the part you’ve been waiting for — and I’m going to let him tell it himself.
Why John wore a wire on our father. Not the version you’ve read, not the version the papers wrote. His. He walks me through all of it: the meeting in 1995, what he was told about mom and dad getting re-indicted, what he thought he was doing for our father, the money they paid him — $600 a month, he was living under the poverty line — the device they wanted to put under his skin, and the moment he heard what they wanted done to somebody and knew he couldn’t be part of it.
And then there’s my father. Dad telling him “if it was the other way around, you’d have done it to me.” Dad telling him “we don’t kill our family.” I’ll be honest with you — there are things in this conversation that disappointed me in my own father, and I say so out loud for the first time.
We also get into the day John got sober and everything changed, the years I didn’t know where he was, and how a guy from our old neighborhood ends up as his friend in California.
You can call my brother whatever you want. Hear him out first.
Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of 3. Part 3 drops next week.
#MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #FranzeseFamily #MobFamily
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1 hr
September 17 Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 1)
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People, I’ve told my story for over 30 years. Today you’re going to hear the side of it I couldn’t tell — because I didn’t live it. My brother John is finally at my table. Same house, same father, same life... seen from the other side. You may know his story — and believe me, we’re going to get to ALL of it — but it starts where WE started: growing up as Sonny Franzese’s sons.
I can’t sit down with my father anymore. So this sit-down, with his other son, might be the most important one I ever do.
John takes full responsibility for everything in his life — he’s never made excuses. And in this one he tells me things even I didn’t know: the truth about our mother — I say some things about her I’ve never said publicly — the night dad went to jail, the prison visits he hated, the day dad told him “there’s no shame in crying,” his 16-year war with addiction and the rehab he walked out of on day 88, our sister Gia, and the conversation where I begged our father to see what was happening to his son — and he couldn’t.
This is Part 1 of 3. Part 2 drops next week — and that’s where we get into the part of John’s story you think you know.
If you or someone you love is fighting addiction — my brother is living proof it can be beaten. Don’t give up on them.
Face to Face With My Brother — The Son Who Testified Against Our Father (Part 1)
#MichaelFranzese #JohnFranzese #SonnyFranzese #FranzeseFamily #Addiction #MobFamily
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1 hr 11 min
September 15 My Daughter Finally Opens Up: The Tragedy, the Healing & Her Wedding Day
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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
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1 hr 1 min
September 11 Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made
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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.
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Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made
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34 min
September 08 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.

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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

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1 hr 37 min

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