@@DropBearJroc "In 1980, Franzese had become a caporegime of a crew of 300." - from Wikipedia If you have 300 people working under you, and you're making $8 million a week, I think you're pretty high up in your organization
@@kage8725 The mob usually refers to the Italian Mob, from mainland Italy. The mafia is usually the Sicilian Mafia or La Cost Nostra and they're the ones who made up the 5 families of NY.
I saw his dad (Sonny Franzese) in a deli with my dad in the 80s. He was surrounded with guys, my dad had no idea who he was and struck up conversation abt the weather or whatever. He paid for our groceries, actually. It was years later that my dad realized who that guy was
Dude get outta here with that bull. Mafia ain’t cool, I’ve been obsessed with them for decades but I’ll NEVER stoop low enough as to call an evil lifestyle “cool”.
@@dontask6863 How is it evil if they only go after other mobs, criminals, never touch the innocent(edit: as in women and children, and as a rule of thumb for men on first interactions, it changes if you refuse the protection money but not all mafias use that as a source of income), and make you pay if you don't pay back what you owe? Seems pretty chaotic neutral to me and not straight up evil. That and they have a code and a sense of honor(however rugged), they're not like those cartels like MS 13 and thugs and gangs.
@@BringDHouseDown Because that’s an outright lie. They rob and steal from innocent hard working folks ALL the time. You make it sound like they only rob each other and murder each other, that’s complete bs and you know it. There’s no honor among thieves. They enrich themselves off the backs of others that work hard. How is that not an evil lifestyle? Robbing food from people’s mouth. Don’t hand me that bs.
@@dontask6863 They do business for willing costumers(edit: this doesn't mean it is solely with willing costumers, stating a fact does not negate all other possibilities that are not mutually exclusive, the fact I have to explain this to people who act like they know better than me when they can't even use their heads and jump to conclusions is ridiculous), mostly with products that are banned, they go after innocent people if there's a situation of disrespect or going back on their own words(again not the only scenario, the other would be refusing protection) overkill? yes, but why make a deal you can't follow through with? their competitors are other mafias and the uneducated and uncivilized gangs. Let me ask you, when was the last time you were on the receiving end of a mafia's methods for you to know for certain that they are exclusively evil(the whole point of my argument was about where they fall on the 'evil meter' if evil is the right word to describe them) and go after innocent people. Edit: there's chaotic elements in society, and then there's straight up evil with worship and blood rituals, death cults and initiations that involve ending a random person or r-word them, and other crazy stuff that cartels are involved in. This was my whole point.
@@BringDHouseDown I'm pretty sure there is a video of a streamer; who out on the streets somewhere (can't remember where); was warned from a local about the "mafia" robbing people on the streets at night in that area. The streamer didn't take it serious yet had a piece of his equipment snatched from him from a guy on a bike just minutes afterwards (it's all on video by the way). Of course, that doesn't mean it was indeed the mafia but it seems suspicious to me since the local specifically said "the mafia". Perhaps he calls anyone who steals the mafia I don't know. I'm pretty sure they will and do rob innocent people though. It's money at the end of the day.
The fact that this man watches certain scenes and essentially corrects them for historical accuracy because he was around and/or involved, is just mindblowing
How is noone talking about how this dude was in the movie theatre with his girlfriend, fresh outta jail, saw HIMSELF in the movie and immediately said, "we need to get the f%$@ out of here". What a freakin legend 😂 Didnt even know he was gonna be in the movie this guys is hardcore, Good Fellas is a classic
The fact that people like him are free is so scary and saying that they had politicians in their pocket even more. Guess why politics are so shitty. I always knew it. I prefer a ruler like totalitarion dictator but that allows freedom of speach.
@@whyintheworldamiallowedsuc6417 well... cause he was a goon for the mafia. And I am totally against mafia. One thing is killing when getting attacked and trying to survive, another thing is killing due to a mistake which is the most comun type of murder, called murder of passion or something like that and than there is one thing which killing for the benefit of otheres. it doesn't matter who you kill but you kill. Now this is mafia type of shit. And the worst part of it is that the systems doesn't shit about it. I am continuing in the next reply.
@@akira-qr4qm He wasn't saying it wasn't the right thing to do. Right or wrong, having your own brother turn on you before becoming estranged for years would still be heartbreaking for Michael.
You know Goodfellas is my all time favorite movie, and I started seeing stuff about this guy recently. And I never realized it till I watched this video that it was his name lol
Isn't the future hilariously amazing, we now have ex-mob bosses reacting to Mob movies on the internet, undercover cops explaining how they go to work and much more. I love it.
HERE IN VEGAS a mobster was arrested for killing a tourist. He had a long history of beating-up tourists if they complained about being overcharged. This time he crossed the line & killed one THAT is the norm of mobster life, not the exception. We have bodies being found in Lake Mead about once a month (victims of the mob) ,
@@BostonSQ I forget who it was but they said he was dissolved in acid, put into a barrel that was filled with cement and dropped into lake Michigan. Granted that's the word of one man, who claims to have been in the family that killed him. No one outside that life will ever know what happened to him.
@@SirDistic Each mob boss gives different explanation of Hoffa's death, but Michael and Sammy the bull, both have said that the body is someplace wet, and they both were active at that time in that life
There's something about the way he says "I had a brother.... have a brother that turned witness" says so much to me. Maybe it was rehearsed, but it gave a real "he's dead to me" vibe.
@ZoneFighter1 what you should do and what you would like to do can be very different things, sometimes the right thing to do is too mentally and emotionally hard to bear doing. He may forgive him but forgiveness versus renewed trust and love are two different things
Actually he's not. Just a very talkative lunatic. The guy in Goodfellas is called Michael Francese. Just a coincidence. Guy also says he knew Jimmy Conway and Henry Hill. They were not associated with Franzese's family and were pretty unknown in the big scheme of things. No way he was hangin out with the guys. Leave this attention seeking sociopath and murderer alone.
The whole “it fell off a truck thing” is really funny to me cause my grandpa was in the mob and he would send us tons of cool stuff and my dad would joke that it fell off a truck and me and all my siblings thought it was just a joke cause we’re Italian but we later found out that our grandpa was actually in the mob lmao
@@Alaryk111 so this has already been explained to yall. A cultural difference between europeans and americans is that europeans state where they’re from as the country of their origin. Birth maybe, but certainly their language and culture. Americans trace “where they are from” from the ancestral history of the first known immigrant/s. Because this country was built by slaves and immigrants. Moving continents is a radical experience, and so these immigrants passed their culture down through their families to remember the homes they left behind. No american is telling you that they have an italian passport. You’re just being annoying.
Why bother denying it when it's ALREADY fairly known as this point? It's not like he's saying anything people didn't already know and that they haven't already heard.
Met this man before and shook his hand and he even gave me a couple of minutes of his time. Very interesting man very nice and warm personality but he definitely has the eyes of someone that has seen some things but yet you can tell his family especially his wife and his dad mean everything to him.
Yeah , I am sure the happened . Fun Fact : 18 years ago I shook hands with Al Capone . He was a very nice guy who seems to love his family . The media portrays him unfairly imo .
Fun fact: The Godfather movies are not particularly realistic but they became realistic because the mafia saw these movies and got inspired by these movies, for example: the kiss on the hand shown in The Godfather wasn’t a thing when at the time the movie got out but the mafia made it happened and they used these movies to « enlist » the next generation of mobster because the movies portraid the mafia as more romanced than it was at the time
Why did they need to leave? What, did he think that seeing an inaccurate depiction of himself in a movie was somehow going to get him in trouble with the law or the audience? Besides, in real life young Michael Franzese looked like an older version of Elliot Rodger rather than a stereotypical Italian-American mobster.
I love how this guy is so honest and informative about who he was/is, it's sad that he hasn't seen his brother in 10 years, but it's interesting that the kiss of death is a Sicilian thing
@@CalifornianCuttlefish The kiss of Judas is where the Sicilians got the kiss of death from, so it was relevant to the topic. Also, of course it would be Sicilian, since one must be Sicilian to be in La Famiglia. I am more surprised the American members didn't use it.
my social group does the same, one is a koala and one is a panda, I on the other hand am baldy number 2 cuz baldy number 1 is older than and whats there to say we are in fact bald
Michael Franzese's father, John "Sonny" Franzese actually passed away 3 days ago at the age of 103. He lived to such an impressive age, especially knowing that he was the underboss of the Colombo Crime Family.
Imagine how I felt when I got am email. "Let's work together" - Henry Hill This was about Goodfellas art I created. He wanted prints in exchange for signing stuff. He passed before we got to meet up.
It's actually kind of wild to watch this guy talking about big time violence and crime in such a chill way. Like listening to grandad tell stories about old friends.
It's probably because he's spent decades in that kind of lifestyle. Humans tend to get very used to things they experience often, so what seems outlandish and almost fantastical to us is normal to him.
I heard quite enough of that from my father, who despised them and grew up with them. As one example, one hitman who turned states evidence and went into the witless protection program was basically the school wimp, beat down by everybody. Got caught after a rather lengthy career, sang like a canary. I call it witless protection because of the sheer volume of those who offend again while on the program. Personally, I pity their lives, not much of a life when you're constantly looking over your shoulder and have to answer the door with a gun in your hand at times.
Literally the only mobster to be going along with this dumbass UA-cam review bs. Back in the day you didn’t put yourself out there like that ex mobster or not
When he said his father is 103, I googled it and realized that Sonny (his father) died like week later of this video's upload. There's a little fun fact for ya'll
@dj qb I mean, the guy was 103. If the mob wanted him dead, they’d only have to wait. No reason to get blood on their hands when Father Time will do the deed for them.
When he reviewed the Goodfellas, and said that Pesci did the best, the scene it was at, I think Pesci said he adlibbed from something an actual mobster said to him when he was a waiter as a kid
Yes, apparently the mobster looked at him very seriously & said something like "The smell of your ass reminds me of the morning poo, poo, poo pa pow poo poooo". Or something similar & apparently this is where he got his inspiration from.
It's sad but to your point,his dad did make it to 103. I'm, sure his father felt like death could come at any moment and that his life was just about over.If I make it to anywhere from 90-100,that's how I would feel.
@@Carlosdpg19 somebody could recognize him in the cinema, either right away or after the movie. (OR - the funny/joke reason - he was afraid they'd show something he really said/done.)
When he said "my father's 103" I was interested so I looked it up and his dad died exactly one week after this was released. What a life he must've lived
So we're just going to casually go over the fact this dudes father is 103 years old, and from the sounds of it he was a mob boss too. Dang, that has to be some kind of record.
I'll assume this dude was/is powerful since he can just outright do this and be like hey I'm Michael, I'm an ex mob dude and you're watching the disney channel
yes he was powerful back then. he was a caporegime/captain for the colombo crime family and his father was the underboss of the family. his family is well respected that he said that if his sister were to go home late at night, no one would dare harass or rape her, men would even escort his sister home if they saw her
yes he was powerful back then. he was a caporegime/captain for the colombo crime family and his father was the underboss of the family. his family is well respected that he said that if his sister were to go home late at night, no one would dare harass or rape her, men would even escort his sister home if they saw her
My great grandfather used to tell about how when he was a boy Al Capone would bring shoes to the kids in his neighborhood because it was a very poor Italian neighborhood and in the holidays he brought turkeys and hams to the families.
@LiveOkie Worthless or not, that depends on perspective. We often like to think that bad guys are just monsters that have no redeeming qualities & they have no heart whatsoever, but that ain't necessarily true. One could be one of the best caretakers to a certain community, while being an apathetic killing machine to yet another community. In cases like these, it's just the 'us & them' mentality at work & it could happen to just about anyone, good guy or bad guy.
I know a guy who worked for the Italian mafia as a thief or somehting (hijacking trucks, stealing jewelry, etc.) Did some terrible stuff as well. He once fled from the police and rammed a small bus full of kids (no good ending, and still traumatizes him to this day). He never speaks directly about his life, only very vaguely or as if he's talking about someone else, and I got most of the info second-hand. But he told me once somehting like: "Once you dance with the devil, the dance lasts forever." Another guy I don't really know much about was called Capu (the Head) by everyone. When I asked why I was simply told because he once beheaded a guy with a knife and then kicked the head around like a football until someone came to pick him up.
@@deggis4 Not that it excuses his behavior by any means but in some cases that's why people end up going down a bad path. Mothers are meant to be nurturing, and we need that example as children, if we don't have that it can be harder to grasp that other people can be good or have good intentions. If your own mother is against you, it would stand to reason you would believe everyone else was against you. And again that doesn't excuse his behavior or say that his mother is all to blame, but it could very well be a part of it.
He tells another story but not on this video about Henry Hill. He crossed paths with Henry Hill in prison while Hill was being transferred to the witness protection program after testifying. Hill saw him and locked eyes with him while passing in a hallway. Hill recognized him and freaked out knowing that he's as good as dead in that prison because Michael saw him. They moved hill out of that prison by the end of the day. Michael said at that point he wouldn't have done anything as he was trying to turn his life around, but his former life reputation proceeded him.
Al Capone really wasn't as dangerous as Hollywood made him out to be, the only reason he's seen as a menace because Elliot Ness wrote a book on Al Capone.
How come nobody has made a movie about this guy's life? it's literally perfect movie material. Raised by a crime boss father and becomes a crime boss himself, and his brother testifies against their father and even tries throwing Michael under the bus, and Michael leaves the crime business for a woman he met at a movie set.
I heard him speak a few years back at a men’s event. He talked about how he “tries” to keep a laid back life now in Cali, so as to not rub anyone back East the wrong way. In other words, he said he’ll speak when invited etc but never go out of his way to flaunt that he walked away from the life. Even said he doesn’t visit east coast not out of fear, but respect.
As I sit here in quarantine, being bored, I clicked on this- thinking "click bait".. but watched the whole thing, and found it quite interesting. Good stuff.
Same. At first I was like curious but not fully immerse. But as he kept talking I began to listen more intently and now am more curious than I was before.
He did a podcast/interview on Hotboxing with Mike Tyson. It’s an hour and 1/2, and it’s absolutely fantastic. They just released the video a couple of days ago
This guy just went into a movie with his wife and he was surprised because the movie portrayed him literally in the beginning of the scene 😂 Imagine being this deep 🤣
There was a mob boss in Jersey who talked with his consiglieri about bad dreams and anxieties, Simone DeCavalcante. He did have anxieties and issues, but didn't go to a therapist. That Godfather killing was realistic for the 40s, because it's based loosely on the Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago killings. Also mob killings in Sicily. In New York, they probably never would've killed Sonny like that, but in Chicago or Sicily? Yes. In Casino, the stuff in that actually happened. Casinos weren't as tight with public security. If you were a decent guy who regularly spent your money there, they'd treat you like royalty. If you were a cheat, they'd toss you out. But if you kept pushing it, and there was a reason you weren't directly connected to the cops, they'd absolutely break hands, fingers, cut off a pinky, or finesse you out your literal house.
The Editor must have been a big Sopranos fan. "The therapy thing is wrong, the guy fighting Tony is wrong, the shorts thing is wrong." Accuracy Rating: *7/10*
Author and former LAPD drug investigator Michael Ruppert once explained the political system in the US like this: It’s all a crap game with lots of money. You just call the Republicans the Gambinos and the Democrats the Genoveses. Occasionally somebody shoots each other at the table but as soon as someone threatens their crap game they all unite to protect it.
Regarding Livia Soprano: David Chase has said she was modelled after his own mother. In fact he had to defend the character against those who said she was unrealistic. So I guess Michael Franzese and David Chase have that in common.
Pretty much all Italian-American grandmas act exactly like that so I'm not sure how anyone could say it was unrealistic. It was probably the most realistic aspect of the entire show.
@@areallyawsomename I think I know what you mean. But I also think those critics were referring to Livia’s more sociopathic tendencies. (After all she did conspire to murder her own son. And that hopefully isn’t very common ;) ). She had an evil streak that wasn’t just about flaunted self pity and drama-queenery. The most chilling thing about her, in my view, was that she seemed completely void of anything resembling love - for anyone, including her own children. There was nothing there except self pity.
`` If a mob boss went to see a phycologist, he would be in the trunk of a his car at the end of the day along with the phycologist.`` That's a pretty badass line.
I love The Sopranos but in terms of being realistic it just falls so short. From the murders to the psychiatry thing to the way the family talks to the boss. There is a lot wrong with the greatest show ever made....
@@DH-xh3pg to be fair, the show does say these things are abnormal, the psychiatry meetings are kept secret fur the most part and when word does get out, tony treats it like they are both gonna die. and the way people talk to tony i chalk up to him being a relatively "new" boss, and the show tries to tell us that his crew doesnt really respect him as much as they fear him, into being his "yes men" though thats debatable to a degree. anyway i think it hit a nice balance, the therapy sessions were some ov the more interesting parts ov the show fur me, and it wouldnt be the same without them.
I didn't get what he meant there. like, is it the matter of them having to stay silent about everything & keep all things a secret? or is it something else?
Goddam I thought he was just a random guy who used to be in the mafia but he just starts revealing more and more like how he was personally named in a huge movie with a guy playing him and chased al Capone out of Brooklyn. Like Jesus he must have been at the very top of the mafia food chain
_"I HAD a brother , i have a brother testified against my dad and actually tried to hurt me and went into the Witness Protection Program. I haven't seen him in 10 Years"_ 💀
His bro turned state's witness and wore a wire while with their father. That and his testimony got their dad put away for 9-something years. He got humane release due to his senior age (Oldest prisoner in the US at the time). They met a year or so before the father passed (Feb 2020) to reconcile. Read somewhere else that the brothers did touch base but ultimately decided that it was best to remain estranged. Crazy stuff man.
Imagine being able to watch different mob movies and being able to correct mistakes because you were actually there and involved, or being able to say how mobsters really died because you were the guy who killed them. That's such a god tier flex
Maybe more like he knows what DIDN'T happen to Hoffa. He said the movie got it wrong. No surprise there, since they're always protected by the ''some events have been dramatized...'' disclaimer in the final credits.
@Narly waves cause it was around his time and the five families are the ones who decide the hit on someone big as hoffa. He is actually close with persico too since he is a capo so we could safely assume that he knows quite a bit about it.
@@martins_alternate_universe6783 Nah he does know, he has a recording from the guy who did it, they FBI has tried to get it from him but he wont give it up
"We took murder very seriously" "If a mob boss went to a psychiatrist he'd be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week, along with the psychiatrist"
He meant they only whacked someone in serious cases and a captain seeing psychiatrist is one of the most dangerous scenarios that could happen. He's violating the omerta.
@@akashdeepsingh7506 in my understanding, its like an oath. Basically, you can't talk about the mafia, can't even admit to being involved. Cannot drop names of your associates and made men. You can't walk away from that life easily too. Once you make that oath, you're in that life for a long time :)
No one said that the stuff going on is ok, but being able to know what is realistic and why helps to know them better. There's levels of good reasons to do this. Thank you for sharing.
@@mrstealcar4702getting jailed is better than getting whacked like Joe Gallo, Albert Anastasia, Angelo Bruno, Bugsy Siegel, Sam Giancana, Jack Mcgurn, Phil Testa, Shondor Birns, Danny Greene, Dutch Schultz, Joe Masseria, Anthony Spilotro, Paul Castellano, Carmine Galante, The guys who robbed Tony Accardo, Irving Feinstein,Dino Bravo, The Victims from the VDM.
@@tooreal9020 I think Sheeran just as well couldve killed Hoffa. And Michael is only speaking against it for his own well being, but that's just my theory
it makes sense to me that Michael would give Martin Scorsese a high rating, since Martin actually grew up in/around organized crime and a lot of his mafia movies are based around what he grew up in/around
In a sense, both positions are correct. The line from the Sopranos was meant to convey: "If a boss is in a situation he wants to be SEEN as the Boss...shorts--not a good idea. But Mike is right, you have seen bosses decide (say they're out fishing) where they don't give a shit about looking like they're the boss. You've even seen photos of Skinny Joe Merlino around Philly and Florida wearing shorts--a lot. To the point where I think he's expressly trying to imply: "I AINT the Boss!" to add credence to the impression he's been trying to give of being "retired".
Why am I finding it so goddamn hilarious that Insider for real had the guts to call in an actual LIVING former mafia boss of THE FIVE FREAKING FAMILIES 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@johnduncan6379 about the time you posted was about when I just finished a podcast on how Korea does living funerals. Very cathartic. People who are alive lay in the coffin and hear what people say about them.
That statement about emulating his mother through bugging tapes had me thinking. That's so crazy, what an articulate guy. It's hard to believe he was a powerful mob boss.
Not really, because anybody who actually knows that life knows you're no longer a shooter when you've reached that level. If you're doing the dirty work, you're an enforcer at most.
Met a New Yorker, while in the Navy, who said he'd blindly took a corner and slammed into a high-priced bad guy. He fell backwards, realized it all and said sorry with terror. Bad guy looks down, laughs and walks away.
“Murder was taken very seriously”...”If a mob boss was ever visiting a psychiatrist he’d be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week, along with his psychiatrist.”
SharkAcademy I mean he’s not wrong. What do you do when you see a shrink? You spill your guts and talk about shit that’s not supposed to be talked about. And if you’re in that life, literally everything you do is confidential unless you want a Colombian necktie farewell.
"This is highly inaccurate...just not true at all." 7/10 "Now this, this is very accurate. This absolutely happened, just like that." 4/10 ...Maybe I just don't understand this rating system
`` If a mob boss went to see a physiatrist, he would be in the trunk of his car at the end of the day with the physiatrist.`` That's a pretty badass line.
@@aaronwilliamson8851 I mean he wasn’t a boss but in a different way looking at it he had his own crew people did work for him and he had high rank in a really powerful crew
@@crizzm3lm863 A dagger represents betrayal...he admits to betrayal by admitting he "walked away from that life." He "wrote" a great biography...Blood Covenant. He gets kind of preachy at the end but it's worth the read.
Remember when people jokingly commented "real Mafia boss react to mob movies"
Dreams come true.. 🤣
He was a Capo. While the boss of some, he's not "The Boss".
@@DropBearJroc still pretty cool to get his perspective
@@DropBearJroc "In 1980, Franzese had become a caporegime of a crew of 300."
- from Wikipedia
If you have 300 people working under you, and you're making $8 million a week, I think you're pretty high up in your organization
@@tobaliciousholland12 regardless, he's still not "The Boss"
"I had a brother.. I have a brother"
Ouch.
So sad to have that kind of relationship
xkiyo7 he dead!
@@loominizer31 or become a cop.
@@loominizer31 he's not a cop he's a lifelong heroin junkie that ratted on his dad for money from the government. It's well documented.
They not real brothers
man to hear that Capone wasnt as highly respected as history made him out to be is kind of surreal and its very suprising to me
Robert Wilson, he wasn’t highly respected in New York. In Chicago he was king.
So true man
He wasn’t in the Mafia; he was in the mob, so it makes sense that La Cosa Nostra didn’t care about him.
@@imcharming4808 maybe im just naive but can you explain that concept? id figure a gang leader is a gang leader but again i might just be naive
@@kage8725 The mob usually refers to the Italian Mob, from mainland Italy. The mafia is usually the Sicilian Mafia or La Cost Nostra and they're the ones who made up the 5 families of NY.
His father died 3 years ago at age 103. He is 70 and looks 50. This family has god-tier genetics.
Isn’t he adopted?
@@alwillk OP's point still stands
His father died a week after this video came out. Crazy
@@Dog19181 no he didnt lol
@@durtydawg3130 John “Sonny” Franzese father of Micheal Franzese died February 24th 2020 one week after this video was published look it up
I saw his dad (Sonny Franzese) in a deli with my dad in the 80s. He was surrounded with guys, my dad had no idea who he was and struck up conversation abt the weather or whatever. He paid for our groceries, actually. It was years later that my dad realized who that guy was
Saul Goodman holy shit
oh shit
Did that have anything to do with your pursuit of a carreer in law and association with gangsters?
@@LucDutra92 How is this comment so underrated?
@Ebestech A why wouldnt we? who would care that much to even make that up?
Imagine watching your old boss, or the guy that murdered your family member on youtube casually rating movies.
Dude get outta here with that bull. Mafia ain’t cool, I’ve been obsessed with them for decades but I’ll NEVER stoop low enough as to call an evil lifestyle “cool”.
@@dontask6863 How is it evil if they only go after other mobs, criminals, never touch the innocent(edit: as in women and children, and as a rule of thumb for men on first interactions, it changes if you refuse the protection money but not all mafias use that as a source of income), and make you pay if you don't pay back what you owe? Seems pretty chaotic neutral to me and not straight up evil. That and they have a code and a sense of honor(however rugged), they're not like those cartels like MS 13 and thugs and gangs.
@@BringDHouseDown Because that’s an outright lie. They rob and steal from innocent hard working folks ALL the time. You make it sound like they only rob each other and murder each other, that’s complete bs and you know it. There’s no honor among thieves. They enrich themselves off the backs of others that work hard. How is that not an evil lifestyle? Robbing food from people’s mouth. Don’t hand me that bs.
@@dontask6863 They do business for willing costumers(edit: this doesn't mean it is solely with willing costumers, stating a fact does not negate all other possibilities that are not mutually exclusive, the fact I have to explain this to people who act like they know better than me when they can't even use their heads and jump to conclusions is ridiculous), mostly with products that are banned, they go after innocent people if there's a situation of disrespect or going back on their own words(again not the only scenario, the other would be refusing protection) overkill? yes, but why make a deal you can't follow through with? their competitors are other mafias and the uneducated and uncivilized gangs. Let me ask you, when was the last time you were on the receiving end of a mafia's methods for you to know for certain that they are exclusively evil(the whole point of my argument was about where they fall on the 'evil meter' if evil is the right word to describe them) and go after innocent people. Edit: there's chaotic elements in society, and then there's straight up evil with worship and blood rituals, death cults and initiations that involve ending a random person or r-word them, and other crazy stuff that cartels are involved in. This was my whole point.
@@BringDHouseDown I'm pretty sure there is a video of a streamer; who out on the streets somewhere (can't remember where); was warned from a local about the "mafia" robbing people on the streets at night in that area. The streamer didn't take it serious yet had a piece of his equipment snatched from him from a guy on a bike just minutes afterwards (it's all on video by the way).
Of course, that doesn't mean it was indeed the mafia but it seems suspicious to me since the local specifically said "the mafia". Perhaps he calls anyone who steals the mafia I don't know.
I'm pretty sure they will and do rob innocent people though. It's money at the end of the day.
The fact that this man watches certain scenes and essentially corrects them for historical accuracy because he was around and/or involved, is just mindblowing
Best comment here.
I noticed that. It's both shocking and creepy that he knows some of these facts from personal experience...
whats crazy is scenes are based off him :rofl:
Almost like that’s the point of the video
how?
How is noone talking about how this dude was in the movie theatre with his girlfriend, fresh outta jail, saw HIMSELF in the movie and immediately said, "we need to get the f%$@ out of here". What a freakin legend 😂 Didnt even know he was gonna be in the movie this guys is hardcore, Good Fellas is a classic
Bro worse, it was his wife that he was with!
The feeling must have been like someone starting to read your browser history.
A lot of it is innocent, but let’s not wait around
His wife.
It's like, man, you missed a really good one.
Nah it's obvious he watched it later.
“We had fat tony Solaro.
We called him fat tony because he was fat.”
Me: Alright, this guys the real deal
he means business
This man was bringing in 8 million dollars every week for a bit he’s been the real deal goof
Jared J
Sorry I didn’t mean to offend you. I didn’t realize you were blowing the guy. I’d never say anything if I knew that beforehand sir.
Simpsons vibe
Justin Hopper I love this response
Does this guy not age?? He's 68... But looks like he's 48
What.. never ever 😂 damn he looks young
He said his dad is a hundred and three.
@@R0adsterr0land his dad actually passed away on february 24th. not too long after this video was uploaded.
I guess the secret is to be in the mafia
Great asslicking bro,well done.
The fact that he knows what happened in cases that are still unsolved is kinda scary.
FBI, open the door !
The fact that people like him are free is so scary and saying that they had politicians in their pocket even more. Guess why politics are so shitty. I always knew it. I prefer a ruler like totalitarion dictator but that allows freedom of speach.
@@Leprutz Then it's not a totalitarian dictator 🙃
@@Leprutz why is he scary? hes giving speeches everywhere keeping kids on the right track.
@@whyintheworldamiallowedsuc6417 well... cause he was a goon for the mafia. And I am totally against mafia. One thing is killing when getting attacked and trying to survive, another thing is killing due to a mistake which is the most comun type of murder, called murder of passion or something like that and than there is one thing which killing for the benefit of otheres. it doesn't matter who you kill but you kill. Now this is mafia type of shit. And the worst part of it is that the systems doesn't shit about it. I am continuing in the next reply.
The fact his brother went into witness protection program and hasn’t seen him in 10 years is heartbreaking
But doing that to ya own brother is crazy
When you're living the life, like Franseze did, you have to expect that anyone can turn against or even kill you, even your own family.
it's not, his brother did the right thing
@@akira-qr4qm He wasn't saying it wasn't the right thing to do. Right or wrong, having your own brother turn on you before becoming estranged for years would still be heartbreaking for Michael.
really? I've not seen my sister since 1991 and neither of us are lowly criminals
imagine watching a mob mafia movie and the italian guy next to you says “ i don’t look like that/ we don’t do that”😳😳
I don't trust like that
goldenhawk952 hehe
@@goldenhawk952 Bird up
@@TheBlarggle DUDUDUH
goldenhawk952 im looking to buy a car today
That must be a mindfuck to watch Goodfellas and see yourself in the movie.
Is he init?
@@modivaakbar6730 He's not there personally but his character is
Right I almost forgot about that!
You know Goodfellas is my all time favorite movie, and I started seeing stuff about this guy recently. And I never realized it till I watched this video that it was his name lol
Mo Diva akbar Yes, the second guy they mention. Mikey F.
Isn't the future hilariously amazing, we now have ex-mob bosses reacting to Mob movies on the internet, undercover cops explaining how they go to work and much more.
I love it.
Yea and he's quite unique too since mafia guys usually don't live to tell the story.
W.D. Dragneel I was ur 1,000 like. that’s it. It was really cool to watch it change. Also agreed
No it is not" hilariously" amazing. Just amazing.
Everything literally has a manual
He was a capo not a boss though.
The fact he has deep insight of Jimmy Hoffa is wild to think about, considering law enforcement never found the body of the guy
HERE IN VEGAS a mobster was arrested for killing a tourist. He had a long history of beating-up tourists if they complained about being overcharged. This time he crossed the line & killed one
THAT is the norm of mobster life, not the exception. We have bodies being found in Lake Mead about once a month (victims of the mob)
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He said himself, that it is impossible to find the body and that it’s in a very wet pace)
@@BostonSQ I forget who it was but they said he was dissolved in acid, put into a barrel that was filled with cement and dropped into lake Michigan. Granted that's the word of one man, who claims to have been in the family that killed him. No one outside that life will ever know what happened to him.
Michael in another video has said that he knows exactly what happened, and where is his body, he mentioned the body is someplace wet
@@SirDistic
Each mob boss gives different explanation of Hoffa's death, but Michael and Sammy the bull, both have said that the body is someplace wet, and they both were active at that time in that life
There's something about the way he says "I had a brother.... have a brother that turned witness" says so much to me. Maybe it was rehearsed, but it gave a real "he's dead to me" vibe.
I picked up on that too, dead forever in his eyes
@ZoneFighter1 what you should do and what you would like to do can be very different things, sometimes the right thing to do is too mentally and emotionally hard to bear doing. He may forgive him but forgiveness versus renewed trust and love are two different things
Time stamp??
@@shiningeditedmoon 2:17 is the start
For sure dead to him
That’s crazy that he’s actually a character in Goodfellas
I Am The One Who Knocks of course I know that, but firstly that movie is set 40 years ago, not many of them have survived
He is one of the producers of the movie Knights of the City.
Actually he's not. Just a very talkative lunatic. The guy in Goodfellas is called Michael Francese. Just a coincidence. Guy also says he knew Jimmy Conway and Henry Hill. They were not associated with Franzese's family and were pretty unknown in the big scheme of things. No way he was hangin out with the guys. Leave this attention seeking sociopath and murderer alone.
Yuri Taranto Franzese himself said he wasn’t associated with Gotti, and he even said in this video that it was a different crew
@@yuritaranto7418 you know names where changed in Goodfellas? Jimmy Conway is Jimmy Burke in real life. It is Michael.
So I googled this guy and hes almost 70 years old. I was baffled about how good he looks
He certainly has aged well, no mistake; if I didn’t already know who he is, I’d have guessed him to be in his fifties at the oldest
Well that suprised me.. I would have also said somewhere in his 50ies.
When you have a job that you love, it keeps you young!
@@chunkystylemusic he bathed in his victim blood to stay young
His dad died at 103 so probably they got great genes
The whole “it fell off a truck thing” is really funny to me cause my grandpa was in the mob and he would send us tons of cool stuff and my dad would joke that it fell off a truck and me and all my siblings thought it was just a joke cause we’re Italian but we later found out that our grandpa was actually in the mob lmao
You mean italian italian or american italian?
@@Alaryk111 i think every american italian calls himself italian
@@marcozz5464 Americans love claiming to be a foreigner
He didn't even include the mafia part of that clip lmao
@@Alaryk111 so this has already been explained to yall. A cultural difference between europeans and americans is that europeans state where they’re from as the country of their origin. Birth maybe, but certainly their language and culture.
Americans trace “where they are from” from the ancestral history of the first known immigrant/s. Because this country was built by slaves and immigrants. Moving continents is a radical experience, and so these immigrants passed their culture down through their families to remember the homes they left behind.
No american is telling you that they have an italian passport. You’re just being annoying.
Dude literally said he had the dirt on Hoffas death without batting an eye, and we all just TOOK IT
I think he’s talked about this before and said where they discarded the body.
He said he knew the vicinity, and that its wet. Thats all
@@al1ass yep.. also, guys in that business whether they know or not, all give different stories on purpose. Lol
@@TT-hl5ql yeah only for sure thing here is that he was whacked
How long would you live if you started probing? My guess, not long.
I love how this dudes just casually dropping direct confirmation of the mobs involvement with politics and Hollywood 😆
Why bother denying it when it's ALREADY fairly known as this point?
It's not like he's saying anything people didn't already know and that they haven't already heard.
As a rule of thumb: If there's anything in the US and there's money to make , you can bet the mob has/had a stake in it at some point and to a degree.
It is not a secret. It is like saying water is wet.
@@anyexpat but it isn't
Kennedy family is a famous example
His voice is the most mafia voice that ever mafiad
Yep
Jocko willink
Not even close. Michael doesn’t even have that thick of a NYC accent. Listen to Sammy the Bull speak.
Go listen to Nicky Scarfo.
redcomic619 it’s not just about having an nyc accent
Met this man before and shook his hand and he even gave me a couple of minutes of his time. Very interesting man very nice and warm personality but he definitely has the eyes of someone that has seen some things but yet you can tell his family especially his wife and his dad mean everything to him.
everything is positive and heaven with you top comments.
@@blowjoe8127 thank you. Much appreciated.
Yeah , I am sure the happened . Fun Fact : 18 years ago I shook hands with Al Capone . He was a very nice guy who seems to love his family . The media portrays him unfairly imo .
and his daughters he has 4 if I remember right
He does speaking tours all the time. He’s shook thousands of peoples hands. I believe him.
"Had a brother...have a brother"
I did not miss that correction.
Apparently his brother had left WitSec only a few years before this, he's probably having to readjust to basically having a brother again
I was thinking of how in the sopranos they always said someone was in witsec who they had killed.
@@cassandrapearsall4273 his brother died of natural causes 6 days after this video uploaded. Facts. Crazy huh
Breaking omerta.
@@rayromano6249 that was his father dude. They have the same name except for the Jr
I love how he said his whole name and where he lives😂 he ain’t scared of no one
@@I.YanaCeee lol how about checking out his own yt channel
Because LCN isn’t what it used to be, not too mention his “enemies” are all dead
@@I.YanaCeee BuzzFeed poop
The "los angelas area" is pretty vague to be honest..might as well said "the west coast" it would have been the same lol..
He welcomes smoke actively
Next up Serial Killer rates Horror movies
This doesn't even sound like a bad idea
Jesus Christ man, you are everywhere.
JaxBlade oh shit Jax what’s up man
JaxBlade dude that would be awesome
Actually , Edmund Kemper helped prison psychiatrists to try to understand the mind of another serial killer , Herbert Mullin .
Fun fact: The Godfather movies are not particularly realistic but they became realistic because the mafia saw these movies and got inspired by these movies, for example: the kiss on the hand shown in The Godfather wasn’t a thing when at the time the movie got out but the mafia made it happened and they used these movies to « enlist » the next generation of mobster because the movies portraid the mafia as more romanced than it was at the time
Godfather is an artsy Coppola cinematic masterpiece, wasn’t supposed to be realistic, same with Scarface. It’s too stiff & unnatural
Kissing the hand thing is just a regular thing in my culture we kiss are parents hands and grandparents hands as a show of respect
You clown.
Life imitating art 💯
“Why was he called fat tony cuz he was fat” lmfao 😂😂😂
Na it's cuz he watched the Simpsons all the time.
I was like bruh seriously? Isn’t obvious 🤦♂️
Chicken head 😂😂😂
There’s supposed to be a , in your sentence.
@@AceDeclan No💀”Why was he called fat Tony? Because he was fat.”
Him: "Honey, come on, it's just a movie, they make things up"
*Movie introduces HIM as a character with full name*
Him: "..." "Come on, we gotta go" 😅
Romeo Vásquez that shit was hilarious 😂
He was like "ight, imma head out"
Laughed my head off
I lost it at that point of the vid...hahahaha yet a classic.
Why did they need to leave? What, did he think that seeing an inaccurate depiction of himself in a movie was somehow going to get him in trouble with the law or the audience? Besides, in real life young Michael Franzese looked like an older version of Elliot Rodger rather than a stereotypical Italian-American mobster.
Apparently when Goodfellas was in cinema Pesci got calls from actual wiseguys saying that he did a good job portraying a mobster.
He's always terrified me on screen....wonder what he's like off.
@@2lipToo I’ve heard he’s one of the nicest people you’ve ever met off screen.
@@acp4567 There's a whole story about how he took care of the girl in Matilda after her mother died
@@dig8634 Isn't that Danny Devito?
@@KS-xk2so Damn, you right. I thought I googled it, but apparently not if I got it wrong
I love how this guy is so honest and informative about who he was/is, it's sad that he hasn't seen his brother in 10 years, but it's interesting that the kiss of death is a Sicilian thing
It's actually more a biblical thing. It's from a famous painting of Judas kissing Jesus after he double crossed him during the last supper.
@@dontfeedthetroll294 I know the story of Jesus and judas, I just don't care
@@cameronasani7888 I don't, I am agnostic, and even if I wasn't I am technically jewish
@@CalifornianCuttlefish The kiss of Judas is where the Sicilians got the kiss of death from, so it was relevant to the topic. Also, of course it would be Sicilian, since one must be Sicilian to be in La Famiglia. I am more surprised the American members didn't use it.
@@jenx5870 1. love your name
2. Cool!
3. I am kind of surprised too
Why’d you call him fat tony?
“Because he was fat”
I like the way they give nick names
"No one calls fat Tony fat, NO ONE"
-fat Tony simpsons
@@zanik8326 😂
They called me Pedo Patrick by the way
And that his name was probably Tony.
my social group does the same, one is a koala and one is a panda, I on the other hand am baldy number 2 cuz baldy number 1 is older than and whats there to say we are in fact bald
"every week we had to be at funerals and marriages, never knew who was marrying or dying" 😂😬
Now that’s savage
Lol
Same thing if you think about it
@@good_girl_meraxes5237 you make no sense but its okay
@@jr9710 funerals and marriages
Michael Franzese's father, John "Sonny" Franzese actually passed away 3 days ago at the age of 103.
He lived to such an impressive age, especially knowing that he was the underboss of the Colombo Crime Family.
LaunchedHalo560 SALUT 🍷
Thugs
@sleepy baby wolf It means health/respect. Its what you say before you take a drink of wine with someone, almost like a toast.
Good riddance. People like to romanticize the mob but fail to realize they were massive scumbags.
@@chuggon7595 True, but the mob really isn't as violent as it seems on an ordinary day. The violence is exaggerated.
“We took murder very seriously”
I feel much better knowing they were not cavalier about their murder
Murder is serious business. We do not just run in and start shooting. We are the mob, not a high school!
The fact this guy was a character in goodfellas is honestly insane 😂😂😂 that’s the most badass shit ever
he was the real shit back in the day ..he was making shit ton of money in the gas business defrauding the govt of tax money
Imagine how I felt when I got am email.
"Let's work together" - Henry Hill
This was about Goodfellas art I created. He wanted prints in exchange for signing stuff. He passed before we got to meet up.
You think that's badass the godfather nearly hade all real mobs bosses in the movie
Ikrrrr
@@mrbig891 mhmmm there was a scene!!!
It's actually kind of wild to watch this guy talking about big time violence and crime in such a chill way. Like listening to grandad tell stories about old friends.
Yeah
It's probably because he's spent decades in that kind of lifestyle. Humans tend to get very used to things they experience often, so what seems outlandish and almost fantastical to us is normal to him.
I heard quite enough of that from my father, who despised them and grew up with them.
As one example, one hitman who turned states evidence and went into the witless protection program was basically the school wimp, beat down by everybody. Got caught after a rather lengthy career, sang like a canary.
I call it witless protection because of the sheer volume of those who offend again while on the program.
Personally, I pity their lives, not much of a life when you're constantly looking over your shoulder and have to answer the door with a gun in your hand at times.
I do not think he killed anyone he id other stuff
Literally the only mobster to be going along with this dumbass UA-cam review bs. Back in the day you didn’t put yourself out there like that ex mobster or not
When he said his father is 103, I googled it and realized that Sonny (his father) died like week later of this video's upload. There's a little fun fact for ya'll
he had just gotten out of jail for the last time at age 100 too
@dj qb I mean, the guy was 103. If the mob wanted him dead, they’d only have to wait. No reason to get blood on their hands when Father Time will do the deed for them.
Not exactly "fun"
His father knew everyone... literally. He has been around in that world for that long.
I thought you said it was a fun fact 😉👍
I love him explaining the nicknames 😂 “why’d you call him Benny Eggs?” And he just goes “well he liked eggs” 😂😂 a true legend
Yeah that was hilarious 😂 along with we called him fat tony because he was fat
When he reviewed the Goodfellas, and said that Pesci did the best, the scene it was at, I think Pesci said he adlibbed from something an actual mobster said to him when he was a waiter as a kid
I dont know if it was a mobster, but someone did do that to Pesci when he was younger and thats where he got the idea for the scene.
He was their shoeshine boy
Pesci was a beast in that film.
Yes, apparently the mobster looked at him very seriously & said something like "The smell of your ass reminds me of the morning poo, poo, poo pa pow poo poooo". Or something similar & apparently this is where he got his inspiration from.
The fact that his father passed away 7 days later is kinda saddening but his father lived up to his 100s
It's sad but to your point,his dad did make it to 103.
I'm, sure his father felt like death could come at any moment and that his life was just about over.If I make it to anywhere from 90-100,that's how I would feel.
Did the people making this video even listen to the interview?
Expert: "That's just not true"
Accuracy scale: 7 out of 10.
@Onouphrios 103
The guy got busted in front of his wife while watching Goodfellas. LMFAO
That’s impressive considering his father’s line of work.
So I said “come on honey they make stuff up” and that’s when they introduced my character...
" alright we gotta go, lets go"
“Aight imma head out”
But why? I don't get that part
@@Carlosdpg19 somebody could recognize him in the cinema, either right away or after the movie. (OR - the funny/joke reason - he was afraid they'd show something he really said/done.)
@@itstek u really think mafia boss would believe some movie lmao
When he said "my father's 103" I was interested so I looked it up and his dad died exactly one week after this was released. What a life he must've lived
So we're just going to casually go over the fact this dudes father is 103 years old, and from the sounds of it he was a mob boss too. Dang, that has to be some kind of record.
He was 103
He was the underboss
He’s fake
He died a week after this video was posted.
It is believed that his father,Sonny Franzese,killed 50+ people
I'll assume this dude was/is powerful since he can just outright do this and be like hey I'm Michael, I'm an ex mob dude and you're watching the disney channel
Lmao. Imagine him drawing the disney logo with the glow stick.
yes he was powerful back then. he was a caporegime/captain for the colombo crime family and his father was the underboss of the family. his family is well respected that he said that if his sister were to go home late at night, no one would dare harass or rape her, men would even escort his sister home if they saw her
yes he was powerful back then. he was a caporegime/captain for the colombo crime family and his father was the underboss of the family. his family is well respected that he said that if his sister were to go home late at night, no one would dare harass or rape her, men would even escort his sister home if they saw her
@@Pulang_Diwa I just imagine him doing it with the smoke from a cigar.
Not as powerful as Rudy Giuliani
My great grandfather used to tell about how when he was a boy Al Capone would bring shoes to the kids in his neighborhood because it was a very poor Italian neighborhood and in the holidays he brought turkeys and hams to the families.
Just from seeing this make me think that people have 2 faces....one is a mask and other is the heart
The same thing happened recently with masks, meds & food during the height of COVID.
@LiveOkie yes we know, but he was italian so he could do everything he wanted.
@LiveOkie Worthless or not, that depends on perspective. We often like to think that bad guys are just monsters that have no redeeming qualities & they have no heart whatsoever, but that ain't necessarily true. One could be one of the best caretakers to a certain community, while being an apathetic killing machine to yet another community. In cases like these, it's just the 'us & them' mentality at work & it could happen to just about anyone, good guy or bad guy.
Yup! There's a book that my class and I read when I was in middle school. Al Capone Does My Shirts and Al Capone Shines My Shoes.
I know a guy who worked for the Italian mafia as a thief or somehting (hijacking trucks, stealing jewelry, etc.)
Did some terrible stuff as well. He once fled from the police and rammed a small bus full of kids (no good ending, and still traumatizes him to this day). He never speaks directly about his life, only very vaguely or as if he's talking about someone else, and I got most of the info second-hand. But he told me once somehting like: "Once you dance with the devil, the dance lasts forever."
Another guy I don't really know much about was called Capu (the Head) by everyone. When I asked why I was simply told because he once beheaded a guy with a knife and then kicked the head around like a football until someone came to pick him up.
"Tony Soprano's mother was so much like my mother."
Wow man, I'm legitimately extremely sorry.
She would beat him relentlessly, she was also probably Bi-Polar. Her name was Tina Franzese.
All South Italian moms are like this, that's why me as South Italian didn't marry one of them. Lol
Imagine feeling sorry for a convicted criminal just because his mom wasn't nice.
@@deggis4 Not that it excuses his behavior by any means but in some cases that's why people end up going down a bad path. Mothers are meant to be nurturing, and we need that example as children, if we don't have that it can be harder to grasp that other people can be good or have good intentions. If your own mother is against you, it would stand to reason you would believe everyone else was against you. And again that doesn't excuse his behavior or say that his mother is all to blame, but it could very well be a part of it.
@@anniemouse3853 admittedly, it's from the show, but Tony's mother is an psychologically abusive monster. Probably more than tony or certainly June
I’ve never realized they had a character for him in goodfellas. That’s crazy 😂
@LiveOkie hey it's two times jimmy
@LiveOkie bravo!🙏
It was him, not a character.
@@caragray7010 it was not him playing it tho so it was a character for the movie
Yeah, that's crazy!
10:17 "my father's 103"
His father died 7 days after this was uploaded. Wow.
the mob finally got him
riskinhos Mafia*
riskinhos nice joke but it was natural
@@doublecyt captain obvious
riskinhos I am not captain obvious never call the Mafia and the Mob the same thing they are same differences
He tells another story but not on this video about Henry Hill. He crossed paths with Henry Hill in prison while Hill was being transferred to the witness protection program after testifying. Hill saw him and locked eyes with him while passing in a hallway. Hill recognized him and freaked out knowing that he's as good as dead in that prison because Michael saw him. They moved hill out of that prison by the end of the day. Michael said at that point he wouldn't have done anything as he was trying to turn his life around, but his former life reputation proceeded him.
this guy and his family chased Al Capone outta NY....let that sink in
He didn’t do it? His dad did.
He wast alive
Oliver Olsen still pretty powerful
Al Capone really wasn't as dangerous as Hollywood made him out to be, the only reason he's seen as a menace because Elliot Ness wrote a book on Al Capone.
@@bohwe43 he was still a very rich criminal
He looks exactly how you'd picture a middle aged mob boss
He's not even middle aged. He's old. He's 70, just looks good for the age.
When he’s not even a middle age mob boss…
@JoeysRattata sucked the life out of them, like in mortal kombat
@@rowmagnvs 🔼🔽🔼LK
@@rowmagnvs Just like our Immortal Queen Elizabeth.
This guy looks great for a 70-year-old. I thought he was 55 or so.
His father looked great for being 100 as well, looked like he was 70.
Must be the Mediterranean diet
Maybe that is why he was taking shots at Cappone.
that italian blood
His father was dead 1 wk after this uploaded. Crazy huh
How come nobody has made a movie about this guy's life? it's literally perfect movie material. Raised by a crime boss father and becomes a crime boss himself, and his brother testifies against their father and even tries throwing Michael under the bus, and Michael leaves the crime business for a woman he met at a movie set.
I heard him speak a few years back at a men’s event. He talked about how he “tries” to keep a laid back life now in Cali, so as to not rub anyone back East the wrong way. In other words, he said he’ll speak when invited etc but never go out of his way to flaunt that he walked away from the life. Even said he doesn’t visit east coast not out of fear, but respect.
He said in goodfellas review that he's making a web series on his life with a major production and major actors involved
This mafia stuff is always gonna be fascinating to me
Loot from 30hours of eating spaghetti
MrNoSleep OSRS ayyy love seeing osrs content creators commenting on other vids
Trump voters
So this is what you do when you say "it's pretty afk"
At 7.33 on the right hand side....a very young Richy Aprile !
As I sit here in quarantine, being bored, I clicked on this- thinking "click bait".. but watched the whole thing, and found it quite interesting. Good stuff.
Same. At first I was like curious but not fully immerse. But as he kept talking I began to listen more intently and now am more curious than I was before.
hes very entertaining to listen to
He did a podcast/interview on Hotboxing with Mike Tyson. It’s an hour and 1/2, and it’s absolutely fantastic. They just released the video a couple of days ago
Guys, look listen to Mike tysons podcast "hotboxing with Mike" when this guy was on. Super interesting stuff.
@Spike Flea thats what hotboxing actually is for the older generation? I didnt know that...
This guy just went into a movie with his wife and he was surprised because the movie portrayed him literally in the beginning of the scene 😂
Imagine being this deep 🤣
he explains: I was with a different family. I didn't expect them to associate me with this one.
@@DrWhom the part about his mother was breaking him up inside.
Looks like you lived enough to see much huh?
There was a mob boss in Jersey who talked with his consiglieri about bad dreams and anxieties, Simone DeCavalcante. He did have anxieties and issues, but didn't go to a therapist.
That Godfather killing was realistic for the 40s, because it's based loosely on the Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago killings. Also mob killings in Sicily. In New York, they probably never would've killed Sonny like that, but in Chicago or Sicily? Yes.
In Casino, the stuff in that actually happened. Casinos weren't as tight with public security. If you were a decent guy who regularly spent your money there, they'd treat you like royalty. If you were a cheat, they'd toss you out. But if you kept pushing it, and there was a reason you weren't directly connected to the cops, they'd absolutely break hands, fingers, cut off a pinky, or finesse you out your literal house.
I would buy a DVD copy of Goodfellas if it came with a bonus feature of Michael Franzese giving a full 3 hour commentary during the movie.
they should have him do commentaries on all gangster movies.
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 This might be late but he's doing it now on his own channel. Check it out
I was really hoping they would have shown more scenes
The Editor must have been a big Sopranos fan.
"The therapy thing is wrong, the guy fighting Tony is wrong, the shorts thing is wrong." Accuracy Rating: *7/10*
@@hakasims yup it's 100% for the mom, lol
All people talk about on social media is The Sopranos.
That's exactly what I thought lol
Author and former LAPD drug investigator Michael Ruppert once explained the political system in the US like this:
It’s all a crap game with lots of money. You just call the Republicans the Gambinos and the Democrats the Genoveses. Occasionally somebody shoots each other at the table but as soon as someone threatens their crap game they all unite to protect it.
Gargantuar
Up next: Missing person rates kidnapping scenes.
Cough cough his brother
or... Ex-Kidnapper rates kidnapping scenes
@Johnny Caruthers plot twist: you’re dumb for not getting a joke 😱
@Johnny Caruthers obvious
@Johnny Caruthers r/whoosh
Regarding Livia Soprano: David Chase has said she was modelled after his own mother. In fact he had to defend the character against those who said she was unrealistic. So I guess Michael Franzese and David Chase have that in common.
Pretty much all Italian-American grandmas act exactly like that so I'm not sure how anyone could say it was unrealistic. It was probably the most realistic aspect of the entire show.
@@areallyawsomename I think I know what you mean. But I also think those critics were referring to Livia’s more sociopathic tendencies. (After all she did conspire to murder her own son. And that hopefully isn’t very common ;) ). She had an evil streak that wasn’t just about flaunted self pity and drama-queenery. The most chilling thing about her, in my view, was that she seemed completely void of anything resembling love - for anyone, including her own children. There was nothing there except self pity.
`` If a mob boss went to see a phycologist, he would be in the trunk of a his car at the end of the day along with the phycologist.``
That's a pretty badass line.
What I thought was badass was he said you never hit the boss of you be killed and then he said if the boss goes to therapy, he guaranteed to be dead.
I love The Sopranos but in terms of being realistic it just falls so short. From the murders to the psychiatry thing to the way the family talks to the boss. There is a lot wrong with the greatest show ever made....
@@DH-xh3pg
to be fair, the show does say these things are abnormal, the psychiatry meetings are kept secret fur the most part and when word does get out, tony treats it like they are both gonna die.
and the way people talk to tony i chalk up to him being a relatively "new" boss, and the show tries to tell us that his crew doesnt really respect him as much as they fear him, into being his "yes men" though thats debatable to a degree.
anyway i think it hit a nice balance, the therapy sessions were some ov the more interesting parts ov the show fur me, and it wouldnt be the same without them.
That's a honest one tho
how about frank costello?
"If a mob boss was ever visiting a psychiatrist, he'd be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week along with his psychiatrist." Classic!
Facts!!!!
He is very right about that.
In fairness this also did almost happen in the show.
I didn't get what he meant there. like, is it the matter of them having to stay silent about everything & keep all things a secret? or is it something else?
@@triplem5770 a bit from column a & b
Goddam I thought he was just a random guy who used to be in the mafia but he just starts revealing more and more like how he was personally named in a huge movie with a guy playing him and chased al Capone out of Brooklyn. Like Jesus he must have been at the very top of the mafia food chain
It did say 'mafia boss' in the title, but even I was surprised
He was making a few mil in a single week at one point. He was big
Hes in the top 50 richest mob boss.......and the only one living
What's the movie
@@dragonare715 which one do you want to know?
This is the best one of this series so far because Mr. Franzese is totally authentic. We need more of him!
_"I HAD a brother , i have a brother testified against my dad and actually tried to hurt me and went into the Witness Protection Program. I haven't seen him in 10 Years"_ 💀
Killed 😂😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
He definitely Wacked him.
His bro turned state's witness and wore a wire while with their father. That and his testimony got their dad put away for 9-something years. He got humane release due to his senior age (Oldest prisoner in the US at the time). They met a year or so before the father passed (Feb 2020) to reconcile. Read somewhere else that the brothers did touch base but ultimately decided that it was best to remain estranged. Crazy stuff man.
That's not funny. It's fucked up.
His dad, Sonny, did 50 years on a bank robbery charge, he didn’t need his son to eat him out
I just realized that Robert De Niro is in almost all of the mafia movies.
Ikr same. Like is he even Italian
Yes
Majority of people don't know it that 90% of his movies are about mob/gangster related.
@@camilachaos4490 yes he is Italian
It's either pacino or de niro in mob movies.
R we just gonna ignore that this man said he knows what happened to jimmy hoffa lmao
Right like wtf!!! Wish he could tell us
@@nihilisticbarbie He told...kinda. He told that the body is in a real wet place and you cant find the budy phisically)
@@ЭлиРитц makes sense. Jimmy Hoffa is sleeping with the fishes
Yes, we are. No one actually cares anymore. Dude was at the bottom of the ocean. Ain't nothing left now
Yes, we will.
Imagine being able to watch different mob movies and being able to correct mistakes because you were actually there and involved, or being able to say how mobsters really died because you were the guy who killed them. That's such a god tier flex
so we all just gonna ignore the fact that this guy casually dropped that he knows what happened to hoffa
Maybe more like he knows what DIDN'T happen to Hoffa. He said the movie got it wrong. No surprise there, since they're always protected by the ''some events have been dramatized...'' disclaimer in the final credits.
@Narly waves you know more?
@Narly waves cause it was around his time and the five families are the ones who decide the hit on someone big as hoffa. He is actually close with persico too since he is a capo so we could safely assume that he knows quite a bit about it.
Rober De Niro knows
@@martins_alternate_universe6783 Nah he does know, he has a recording from the guy who did it, they FBI has tried to get it from him but he wont give it up
Next: Real aliens rate scenes from alien movies
lol
Literally almost as possible as this shit happening
"Thats unrealistic, none of us have tentacles 2 out of 10"
🤣😂🤣😂😅
How? Wtf!
"We took murder very seriously"
"If a mob boss went to a psychiatrist he'd be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week, along with the psychiatrist"
He meant they only whacked someone in serious cases and a captain seeing psychiatrist is one of the most dangerous scenarios that could happen. He's violating the omerta.
@@suhasutcu6547 what is ometra
@@akashdeepsingh7506 in my understanding, its like an oath. Basically, you can't talk about the mafia, can't even admit to being involved. Cannot drop names of your associates and made men. You can't walk away from that life easily too. Once you make that oath, you're in that life for a long time :)
It’s a huge risk for a mob boss to be talking to a therapist, w all the info they get you can easily suspect that mob boss to be leaking info
@@akashdeepsingh7506 omertà is a French food similar to crepe
No one said that the stuff going on is ok, but being able to know what is realistic and why helps to know them better.
There's levels of good reasons to do this. Thank you for sharing.
I respect that this man has turned his life around & telling young people do not get in this business bc it never ends well.
I was thinking the same thing.
I don't. Man deserves to not be breathing for what he's done. Not making a youtube video.
seems it ended well for him, lol
@@2FadeMusicHe got jail time. Don’t do it.
@@mrstealcar4702getting jailed is better than getting whacked like Joe Gallo, Albert Anastasia, Angelo Bruno, Bugsy Siegel, Sam Giancana, Jack Mcgurn, Phil Testa, Shondor Birns, Danny Greene, Dutch Schultz, Joe Masseria, Anthony Spilotro, Paul Castellano, Carmine Galante, The guys who robbed Tony Accardo, Irving Feinstein,Dino Bravo, The Victims from the VDM.
Is it just me that’s really enjoying this guy? Like everything he’s saying just captivates me and I want to watch every mob movie ever
Same I’ve actually looked for mafia and mob movies in my house because of this guy haha
He definitely has the gift of gab wich most likely helped him in business
I just want to know why does he smile when talking about Hoffa. I think it’s because they did such a big and good job at killing him. Opinions?
@@tooreal9020 I think Sheeran just as well couldve killed Hoffa. And Michael is only speaking against it for his own well being, but that's just my theory
Joe Nasty Thanks for opening my eyes a little. Hence Sheerans and Hoffas connection. “Your best friend walks you into a room and you don’t walk out”.
it makes sense to me that Michael would give Martin Scorsese a high rating, since Martin actually grew up in/around organized crime and a lot of his mafia movies are based around what he grew up in/around
"is this what you guys do?"
"Come on babe it's a movie 🤣"
*Introduces his character*
"We gotta go😐"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm baffled as to why Scorsese put him (his character( in the shot with another crew?
@@mackychloe cause he was a really big name at the time. I love goodfellas but Scorsese took more than a few liberties
@@Cj-xt6tv I saw Michael explain it recently but thanks. & yeah Scorsese has no prob's with dramatic license..... he admits to it tho.
@@mackychloe oh I definitely don’t mind creative liberties. Just wanted to give the facts
@@Cj-xt6tv Thanks man
"A Don doesn't wear shorts."
"That's not true."
This made my day.
"For a meetin'?"
Jack Dude Everywhere
Angry Silence That scene is the best of The Irishman
and yet 7 out of 10 fedoras?
In a sense, both positions are correct. The line from the Sopranos was meant to convey: "If a boss is in a situation he wants to be SEEN as the Boss...shorts--not a good idea. But Mike is right, you have seen bosses decide (say they're out fishing) where they don't give a shit about looking like they're the boss. You've even seen photos of Skinny Joe Merlino around Philly and Florida wearing shorts--a lot. To the point where I think he's expressly trying to imply: "I AINT the Boss!" to add credence to the impression he's been trying to give of being "retired".
Why am I finding it so goddamn hilarious that Insider for real had the guts to call in an actual LIVING former mafia boss of THE FIVE FREAKING FAMILIES 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂
He wasn’t a boss, but he was pretty high up
He wasn't a boss
@@randomchocotaco capo, he's a captain, like in military
@@ricardas16 like lieutenant
@@ricardas16 not a captain more like a colonel and the boss is the general
Watching a real life mobster speak about real life history is just so surreal. Thank You!
Next: Murdered guy rates several murder movie scenes
The murdered guy woke up dead after dying in sleep
Coincidentally, they can work with this guy again
Psycho would be the best but every main person involved is dead. ...from old age.
Pritesh Ruthun now the hell do you wake up dead
@@johnduncan6379 about the time you posted was about when I just finished a podcast on how Korea does living funerals. Very cathartic. People who are alive lay in the coffin and hear what people say about them.
“I do have Insight on Hoffa’s death”
Everyone:... Wait what...
Yeah too a minute to realize it
@@kaedo-2740 ya in another interview he says he heard about it, and he knows that no one will ever find his body.
@dj qb how u know lol
@diascrive He's like 70 or something
@dj qb In the Irishman he was incinerated.
Can’t believe this guy is 68 years old and his father John Franzese is 103 years old!!
He look more like he is in his 40
Can’t believe this rat is still alive
@@MrGenexxx bruh 😂😂😂
his father is the oldest living man in the penal system
He looks no where near 68 to me.
That statement about emulating his mother through bugging tapes had me thinking. That's so crazy, what an articulate guy. It's hard to believe he was a powerful mob boss.
You’re a serious man when you have to clarify that you weren’t the shooter when talking about a high profile murder.
Not really, because anybody who actually knows that life knows you're no longer a shooter when you've reached that level. If you're doing the dirty work, you're an enforcer at most.
@@dontfeedthetroll294 FACT
The guy's very soft-spoken. That's probably more intimidating than the loose canon trippin' out because you walked by him wrong lol.
That's why Michael Corleone is frightening
I remember in one of his videos he stated that loud obnoxious guys never lasted and were often killed
@@SmokeyOwOs Funny my mother always said, the most dangerous person isn't the one during the talking, it's the quiet ones.
The quiet guy sat at the end of the bar is always more frightening than the loud idiot.
Met a New Yorker, while in the Navy, who said he'd blindly took a corner and slammed into a high-priced bad guy. He fell backwards, realized it all and said sorry with terror. Bad guy looks down, laughs and walks away.
“Murder was taken very seriously”...”If a mob boss was ever visiting a psychiatrist he’d be in the trunk of his car by the end of the week, along with his psychiatrist.”
SharkAcademy I mean he’s not wrong. What do you do when you see a shrink? You spill your guts and talk about shit that’s not supposed to be talked about. And if you’re in that life, literally everything you do is confidential unless you want a Colombian necktie farewell.
In what way could you possibly think those two statements contradict each other...
@@CosmicGaijin obviously, it's just pretty funny to say murder was taken very seriously and then list all the things that'd get you killed
@@Lasergurka I mean…. Seeing a shrink is pretty serious tho
I can explain it to you but you wouldn't understand
6:50 "Most of the local police didn't bother us, just the FBI and the feds"
What a flex, man😅
"This is highly inaccurate...just not true at all." 7/10
"Now this, this is very accurate. This absolutely happened, just like that." 4/10
...Maybe I just don't understand this rating system
Yeah, I agree. The reviews and ratings just didn't match at all
It sounds like he'd rate just the dialogue in video but have a separate one for the actual scene. I need the uncut version.
I think he's rating the whole movie but they're picking out individual scenes to review
X D
@@aemonk8207 wait did he watch the whole sopranos to review this, he must be a hell of a guy
Did the people making this video even listen to the interview?
Expert: "That's just not true"
Accuracy scale: 7 out of 10.
I thought that too, he had nothing but criticism for the sopranos yet it got a high rating?
@@kellylyons1038 it was metz a metz.
I though he was gonna give sorpanos a 1 or something
`` If a mob boss went to see a physiatrist, he would be in the trunk of his car at the end of the day with the physiatrist.``
That's a pretty badass line.
This guys escaped the mafia but can’t escape my home page
lmaoo
Facts this dude everywhere for no reason
Truuu
Fr I saw one video of him and now he’s everywhere lol thanks UA-cam algo
Fr guys a turncoat and been givin fame for it can’t avoid these damn videos
This is really weird seeing a mafia man react to stuff, it's kinda a little scary too actually seeing one
UA-cam made me a recommendation I couldn't refuse.
"Not that I ever hurt anybody"
Press X to doubt
In that context, he meant he never ratted anyone out
@@Doodfist The same way Epstein's prison guards didn't rat out on Epstein's killer.
I shouldn't do so much doubting if I were you. Doubting could get you into a lot of trouble.
I'm sorry that death looked at you and swiped left.....
@@anthonysnowden9426 ERB fan much?
imagine getting out of prision and then appearing in a SCORSESE MOVIE 😂
That is the guy who can provide you accurate context of the experience of mafia member.
that necklace,
He really is a retired Mob boss.
3K likes ?
OMG... I'm speechless.
Why v
He wasn’t a boss lol he was a captain
@@aaronwilliamson8851 he was a human
@@aaronwilliamson8851 I mean he wasn’t a boss but in a different way looking at it he had his own crew people did work for him and he had high rank in a really powerful crew
@@crizzm3lm863 A dagger represents betrayal...he admits to betrayal by admitting he "walked away from that life." He "wrote" a great biography...Blood Covenant. He gets kind of preachy at the end but it's worth the read.