Michael Franzese
speaker
1,097 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Michael Franzese’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Nobody's ever going to hurt them.
We'll protect them.
You have a brotherhood around you.
You know, I was going to be, you know, bonded in blood in a different way, you know, with my father than I already was.
So I had a very idealistic view of the life coming in.
I was excited about it, you know, and I wanted to be the best possible mob guy I could be at that time.
So, you know, maybe I did have it in me all the time.
I just didn't know it.
Yeah, well, I was in kind of, like I said, a recruit period.
And it was an interesting period because from the early 1950s right through 1974-75, they had an expression in the life that covered all five families and that the books were closed.
They weren't making or recruiting any new guys.
The only way they were able to do that in one of the families, if somebody died, they were able to bring another guy in to replace that person.
So when I was a recruit, I was around guys that were waiting 20 years to become a made guy.
Right.
Well, prior to that, you become an associate, meaning that somebody that's an official in that life puts you on record with them and you're officially with that person.
That makes you an official associate.
Nobody else can do business with you unless the maid guy says it's OK and he has complete authority over you.
He's responsible for you and you're responsible to answer to him.
That's an associate.
So when you're in a recruit like I was, I was an associate.
Showing 241–260 of 1,097 · page 13 of 55
← Previous
Next →