Listening to Michael has really lit a fire under my ass. I’m going through the first steps to get off heroin and started looking for a job today.

When he said “Don’t ever come between me and my father” and “if you’re trying to impress those 2 goons don’t do it with me” I almost apologized lol

This man is doing a major public service trying to steer people, especially young kids, in the right direction. Cheers!!!

“I’m gonna get serious here today.” What the heck has it been up until now? 😳

Listening to Mr. Franzese speak just re-energizes my drive to be a better man. Thank you sir!

Rest In Peace Mr. Sonny Franzese

Mr Franzese's testimony about his wife and going back to prison while the war in his family was going on is deep and I can relate. I knew I was going to die by 21 but I ended up moving down south. It was like God had to move me from the north to the south to save my life. The birth of my son is when I walked away from all the nonsense.

Total respect for this man, he uses his past experience as a life's lesson to others. Always spins a positive angle, brilliant to listen to.

This guy is brilliant. He was able to walk away from that life, preserve his own life and family, and have success in the long term.

I did a drawing for Michael and he saw it and actually reposted it on his ig account, what a class move from him, much respect!

I by no means think Mike is a Saint but I do have a giant amount of respect for him for being able to turn his story around in such a dramatic and positive way. When I saw him do the sit down with his daughters and answered some very uncomfortable questions I really saw him in a new light. Also I saw that he is an Incredibly Blessed Father.

“Im not saying I commited murder.” “I lived in that life over 25 years and did anything and everything i had to...” “But to this day i can be prosecuted for murder, NOT SAYING THAT I DID THAT FOR ANYONE WHO WANTED TO KNOW.”

Imagine if Michael and Sammy had a sit down on this channel. It would break the internet

Michael, 5 years ago I was homeless. Today I'm waiting on word about my dream job. Experiencing God during my darkest hours kept me from giving up. I love redemption stories cause I am one. Bring on the good stuff!

When Michael told the guy "Don't ever try to come between me and my Father again." WHEEEEEEEEEW!!! Best listen to the man!

"Let me explain you soomethin' " its the end of you turn to speak. PERIOD.

Hi Michael. I'm battling cancer for a few years and I'm winning. Grazie a Dio. I love hearing your stories, so entertaining. Lots of respect to you. Take care

Mr Franzese, Im clean off heroin almost four years and now enjoy watching these videos. You inspire me to continue my journey of my Christian life. You're a good role model sir.

I've been a born-again Christian since 2014. Lately, Ive become so defeated. It's a terrible experience. Michael, your testimony is really helping me a lot. Thank you for being humble enough to talk so frankly about your faith.

My youngest son and I love listening to you. He’s 14 and a hustler and on his way to turning pro in golf. He runs a flipping business out of the house and online. We really appreciate your faith and business lessons.

I can listen to this guy everyday!!

Anybody ever notice how clearly he answers that murder question without incriminating himself...he is a pro

‘Play it straight, there is no other way’. God Bless Michael ❤️

in this video hes looking into the camera, and you really get a sense and a feeling that a real mafioso is talking to you. the authenticity is apparent.

Respect from Ireland (Eire).

Who else hit the like button before he even start talking lol

I love listening to you. I’m a 41 year old mother, my kids are 15 and 11. My husband and I work hard, job wise and family wise to in hopes that our kids turn out to be good people with common sense. Even though we are worlds apart, you’re stories have a lesson. I tell my son to give you a listen. You are an interesting guy, thanks for speaking out ❤️

I've always been fascinated with the mafia. Love all the movies and reading the books and real accounts of the life. Your channel is my favorite ever. Love hearing your account of that life. You are a great story teller. Please keep it up.

Michael franzese u are the only thing keeping me sane through this tought times thank you for all the amazin content god bless🙏

Should have more people like Michael Franzese in this world! Respect.

If you think that your heart can't be changed and your life made whole after listening to the deliverance of this man, then no one can be touched my friends. A really inspiring and intensely deep person that can eloquently and plainly share and explain life and the need to believe in something good and simple but worthy.

Mr. Michael Franzese is as solid as they come. In all the years i've followed everything mob related, he's always regarded as a stand-up guy. Never flipped, or cooperated with law enforcement. He walked away by the grace of God after serving his time. His new path and ministry are a blessing to us all. God bless you and your family brother.

Someone cookin in the background? Actually kinda like the ambient sounds, feels authentic

These stories are truly amazing. Michael’s storytelling abilities are on a different level!

Michael listening to you has open my eyes up to the reality of the mob life, we tend to glorify it w/all the movies we see, but man it's heartbreaking to know what your family went through, God bless, stay safe and I hope you get to spend the rest of your life @ peace w/your family and friends, bcuz at the end of the day it's family and friends who will bring closure to your life. A grateful sub 👏👍

Hi Michael! I am Richa...a young post grad in engineering from India. Well I saw your interview on Valuetainment and you cannot know how much I am awestruck by your personality. I mean your decisions, wit, intellect and strategy was so very right even in a wrong business that today these qualities of yours made you a person to whom youth all over the world look up to. Obviously it happened right after your moral promises to yourself. All i have learnt from you is to be hardworking, confident, very much focused and calm down in odd circumstances which is the major quality that I need mastering. All I can say you thank you very much Michael...keep enlightening us. And yeah you are suchhhhhhh a handsome man, you look no less than an actor😄 Regards to you

If in an Urban Dictionary you look for "Stand-UP Guy" it need only need to say, "Michael Franzese." I had a similar emotional attachment to my dad. If he'd been a mob guy, I would have been also. God's speed, my brother.

Hi Michael. As a calm and composed man of God I’d love to hear more stories where you were forced to assert your dominance and establish loyalty/fear using words and how you delivered them. Like you, I’m not a loud mouthed, bad tempered man. However, many mistakes I’ve made have involved not demanding respect from those who will only give respect when it is demanded. Thank you Mike.

Excellent insight of the mob life from the man that knows. I can listen to Michael Franzese all day long without ever getting bored. R.I.P. to your father sir. Much respect!!!

Michael, it's clearly evident to me that in a world of fakes, you are the real deal and a stand-up-guy. Not many people these days understand what it means to be, not only a good man but also good at being a man. I thank you for your honesty and compassion for the future of those kids that need the straight and to-the-point guidance you provide them. May your words reach many!

I just moved in with my college roomate and as it turns out we’re both big fans. Keep it up Michael, the channel is blowing up!

Please just keep throwing these stories out here Mr. Franzese, I love them all, alot of good advice e too

Thanks Michael Franzese. You've helped me realize anyone, including myself, can change and better their lives. Keep the faith, brother🙏

Mr. Franzese. I have to tell you sir, thank you for the wisdom you are conveying to the audience. We ALL find ourselves in hard times; your words, faith, and turnaround are 100% inspiration to those willing to listen. Keep up the great work sir!

Franzese about to hit 1 Mil subs by the end of the year at this pace

Mr. Franzese always has a lesson for everything that everyone can apply to their daily lives. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. 2 relaxed questions: What position did you play in baseball? Favorite pizzeria in the five boroughs?

Mr. Franzese, I always took cues from how you've been through the worst and how you set things straight one by one with perseverance and wisdom. Each time you speak up about life and hardships, I always take it to the heart and try to stay strong and keep the will to carry on. You don't know how much it all helped me through my job, family and social life. You're a real decent and very respectable human being. Please keep up the great content.

He wished that kid "Happy Birthday" that means he's gona wack him.

Mr Franzese, the intro into this video. Is very powerful. I can see the difficulty in your eyes for discussing this video. I’m so glad that you are sharing your stories, and experiences plus discussing your family as with you father, brother and sister and your mother. I listen to your stories and reflect more so my choices today in life being disabled and my how I treat my mom who is the only family member left that is close to me. The rest of my family has drifted apart. Thanks again for sharing.

Turning your back on anything toxic and turning to God you're always going to win! Hats off to you Michael for making that change. You are inspiring people more and more everyday whether you know it or not. God Bless 🙏

Michael: “I’m not saying I committed murder” Also Michael: “I was 25 years in that life 😉”

This man’s soul is intact. I’ve been following you for at least a decade. I remember you being on the history channel etc. please keep the great content coming.

MIKE you're my favorite on KZfaq now. I actually learn something from you everytime as a 40 yr old man. Much love buddy

Hello Michael my name is Gary Richards from London I love watching all your stuff on you tube I also have a criminal past I’m 45 now and have spent nearly 27 years in prison I to found god and now try to help others in the same situation as myself I wish you al the best and I will continue to follow you god bless you and keep up the good work !!!

Michael, I've watched most all of the mob movies you review, as well as many of the ones going back to the 30s. But your videos of simply relaying what you've seen, experienced and felt are more gripping than anything Wellman, Scorsese or Coppola ever put on the screen. Your recollections deliver an unforgettable lesson about the veneer of glamor over evil, beneath which is inevitable destruction of the self and everything around you. Seriously, it's like Macbeth. Thank you for your candor, and God bless you and that remarkable wife of yours. Hope all continues to go well with your daughter.

Over the last few days, I’ve watched a lot of your videos. Love listening to you speak and the story’s. The professionalism in the way you speak draws you in. From Australia.

A little bit of the mafia came out of him today lol you could tell

Really loving the videos michael, from Scotland, look forward to them, thank you.

My mother comes the rosallini family.. I appreciate all that you've done for all italian people across America... I live in rapid city south dakota.. Thank you. Love all of your showz

Thank you for your videos, Michael. I love how you just tell the straight stories, and don't glamourize your former life. I really relate to your relationship to your father. I left the religion I was born into some 30 years ago. Because of that separation, my father was required to shun me. My father never spoke to me again after I left that religion. Like you, I think he was wrong, but I respect him for never compromising his principles, as misguided as they were.

9:30 dang Michael's inner don coming out there, the man had to be terrifying at the height of his power. That dude definitely soiled himself.

YOU CAN HEAR HIS WIFE IN THE BACKGROUND WORKING AWAY. SHE DID SAVE YOU WITH HER SERENITY AND GRACE. MAYBE SHE SHOULD DO AN INTERVIEW AS WELL JUST A THOUGHT GOD BLESS!!

Every time he says ‘listen to me’ I listen. That’s generalship

You're my first subscription. Thank you for helping us gain wisdom by your heart felt and thought provoking stories. Much love from Arkansas.

Loved this! These stories are so honest and wonderful! Thank you for being so open with us all!

Mr. Franzese this has to be your deepest most emotional upload ever. I’ve been a subscriber of yours since day one and wait for the bell to ring that you’ve uploaded new material. Keep it coming sir. You are my favorite KZfaq channel and have been spreading the word about your channel. Would be nice for you to get Sammy The Bull on your show after you get Pistone. Thought I’d throw that in their sir!

Thank you for bearing your heart and soul in these valuable stories.

This Saturday is my first birthday without my dad. He died of cancer at the start of the year. I miss my best friend. God and you make my days much more tolerable. Thank you Michael Franzese.

"I'm not saying I commited murder.. I spent 25 years in that life." Boss

I would love to be as calm & collected as Mike is in my general life.

Gotta be honest with you Mike, the last 6-8 minutes of this podcast brought tears to my eyes, very moving !

Hey mike. I’m a big fan. Great work. From your fellow Italian long islander. Keep up great work.

This sit down was intense I could feel that energy coming through the screen.

when the guy loves you he will do anything even walking out in mafia. thats the love i want 😂❤

Amazing guy went through a mad life experience and gained amazing wisdom! All he wants to do is pass that wisdom on and help young guys choose the right path. Your an inspiration mate and looks like you've found your purpose in helping people become the best versions of themselves hats off to you mate ❤️

The best part about him is that he tells the mob stories as a matter of fact and doesnt brag about how crazy he was. I think him and phil leonetti are the only ones sincere about owning up to their mistakes.

SO grateful you are here to talk to us Mike. Best I can put it is, You’re so freakin’ AUTHENTIC, that I jus sit here and gobble up your words. Thanks for yet another great sit down Mike. Take Care 👊🏽✌🏽

I just found this channel the way you turned your Life is nothing less than amazing I got sick last July and have been fighting with chemo now I gave a operation. Watching this channel is inspirational God bless you

Your Sincerity is heartwarming! God bless you Mike!! I feel blessed to be apart of your crew

BEST KZfaq CHANEL!!!

This is one of the most interesting channels/people ive come across. Please keep your stories coming Michael!

Listening to you has helped me so much with my chaotic relationship with my own father. My dad and I have opposite ideologies and the older I got the harder it’s been to live with him. I have a whole slew of my own problems, for sure, which I’m still paying for every day but it’s getting better. Aside from my own issues, everyone in my family over the years, all of whom have overcome their own problems, have tried getting through to our dad and help him stop destroying himself, his life, his marriage, and his family’s lives. I’m sad to say it has never worked, still to this day, I’ve watched my parents not only grow apart but even come to hate eachother. Especially my mother, but my mom is such a good person all the way through that I can’t help but understand and agree with her about a lot of things (about my dad). I’ve been lost for years as to what to do, what to say, how to behave around him and it’s gotten so ugly so many times, at this point our relationship with him is just destroyed. Not saying that’s the case with your father, to be clear, but I’ve struggled with coming to terms about some things. You’ve shown me that I can still tell my dad I love him but that I’m beyond disappointed in him. Unconditional love is self-explanatory, as hard as it can sometimes be. I don’t want to carry around this grudge in my heart against my dad, he doesn’t have much time left, I imagine. It is so important to me to be able to tell him that I still love him but that I’m also so disappointed in him as well. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. You’ve helped me profoundly in learning how to deal with my anger towards him and how to find peace with it. I do love my father, dearly, and I also am deeply hurt by him. That doesn’t change the fact that I want the best for him, I want him to reconcile and make amends with the time he does have. Thank you, Mr. Franzese. You’ve gained a life-long fan (and subscriber) out of this Irishman. 🙏🙏🙏 but seriously, thank you. You don’t even know how much you’ve helped me just by sharing your own experience.

Dude... you are such a clearly very intelligent and empathic human man, very impressive the amount of respect and integrity you show for seemingly anyone... thank you for the stories man! Much love brother!

*These videos are always something to look forward to. Great content!*

“Blessed are the peacemakers”

My favorite talk you have ever given on this channel, needed it today. Thank you.

struggling with life have two beautiful boys but listening to this man has given me hope as well as all the help im getting hearing new words of wisdom helps through the day thank you

This is makes my day!

Love you Mikey! Your stories are literally legendary and way you tell them has us all on the edge of our seats ! Salu.

I'm rebuilding my life starting from scratch, driving a taxi to build up my music studio . After many great struggles I have found a piece of paradise in a very beautiful tropical part of Australia. You have taught me a lot about how one must handle themselves. It has helped me a lot, it has also helped me see my mistakes of the past and allowed me to learn from them. I am apply what I've learnt to my life with great success. I am most deeply grateful, I also love the way you tell a great story with lots of wisdom :)

"I asked you a direct question; I want a direct answer"

MF: we're gettin into the fall season pretty soon... Southern California: what is a season?

Lovely to watch you Michael - love your stories You are 1 lucky guy to have wife that loves you so much, and Jesus - thats the cure for all mistakes and a journey to better blessed life

It sounds like God literally sent Michael an angel (his wife). Love your stories and God Bless!

Great stuff Mike. Probably your best video to date. Direct, honest and a great message.

Always look forward to these videos. Michael how often did you guys speak Italian amongst each other?

Maybe one day we could talk about my life I’ve had a hard rough road from jail to prison to worse junkie in the world to having 3 children engaged n working hard being a productive member of society I tell ya mike I really love ur message n how u share it ur different ur not glorifying it but ur telling it as it is. Thanks so much for everything n maybe one we could talk. Thanks again

The passion when you talk about helping kids banged up,is truly inspiring. GOD bless you Michael 🙏

Hello Michael! My name is ryan wojton, good luck with pronouncing my last name the j is silent. Polish and Irish lol I'm 29 almost 30 I'll b 30 in july! But I'm a cancer survivor and a recovering heroin addict. I lived on the streets for years, lost alota freinds, and had 2 distance myself from everything and everyone in that life. I live alone work a construction job, but when I come home I dont have cable yet so I watch youtube. Mostly outdoors things but man when i found your channel I listened to what you say. I've always been a quiet person, I listen Mike and you have so much wisdom not just from your surroundings and life, but because you speak from the heart! Thank you for what you do and know you are making an impact on my life. Thank you brother keep it up!

Wow, that's solid... Michael didn't want to put his wife through what his dad put his mom through! Looking forward to the Donnie Brasco interview👊🏾