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

Sit Down with Michael Franzese is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 167 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  My Daughter Finally Opens Up: The Tragedy, the Healing & Her Wedding Day

  Sep 15, 202659 min

  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. Inquiries: julia@michaelfranzese.com 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 Backbone Media Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made

  Sep 11, 202633 min

  Join me in the next video with a glass of wine: https://yt.franzesewine.com/ 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. Best and worst. No mercy. Salute. #TheSopranos #TulsaKing #Mafia #MobShows #PeakyBlinders #MichaelFranzese Former Mob Boss Ranks the Top 10 Mob TV Shows Ever Made 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

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

  Sep 8, 20261h 37m

  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

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

  Sep 4, 202633 min

  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

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

  Sep 1, 20261h 36m

  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

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