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Michael Franzese

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2720 total appearances

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Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

It was wrong. You don't kill your brother. No. Hey, my brother, you know, became an informant. Really? Yeah. And is he alive? Yeah. Really? Witness protection? He was. He was? Yeah. What's that like? Do you know? I don't know. Is even the family kept away from knowing the identity? Yes. Really? Yeah. So you're not in touch with him because he was in the program? Yeah. Really?

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

It was wrong. You don't kill your brother. No. Hey, my brother, you know, became an informant. Really? Yeah. And is he alive? Yeah. Really? Witness protection? He was. He was? Yeah. What's that like? Do you know? I don't know. Is even the family kept away from knowing the identity? Yes. Really? Yeah. So you're not in touch with him because he was in the program? Yeah. Really?

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

I didn't speak to him. So he could be living as Joe Flumstein in Sheboygan? I mean, my brother, I didn't speak to him for 10 years. Wow. Holy crow. And then at a 70th birthday party, surprise party, and my wife invited him. Wow, you're 70. You look good for 70. I'll be 74 this year. Holy fuck. Good Italian olive oil skin. My dad lived to 103. Johnny Fontaine with his olive oil skin.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

I didn't speak to him. So he could be living as Joe Flumstein in Sheboygan? I mean, my brother, I didn't speak to him for 10 years. Wow. Holy crow. And then at a 70th birthday party, surprise party, and my wife invited him. Wow, you're 70. You look good for 70. I'll be 74 this year. Holy fuck. Good Italian olive oil skin. My dad lived to 103. Johnny Fontaine with his olive oil skin.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

I didn't speak to him. So he could be living as Joe Flumstein in Sheboygan? I mean, my brother, I didn't speak to him for 10 years. Wow. Holy crow. And then at a 70th birthday party, surprise party, and my wife invited him. Wow, you're 70. You look good for 70. I'll be 74 this year. Holy fuck. Good Italian olive oil skin. My dad lived to 103. Johnny Fontaine with his olive oil skin.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

The man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous. That's right. Will you get out of here? You tell him I ain't no band leader. Oh, yeah, I heard that story. Until he got the horse's head. And by the way, people ask me all the time, did you ever cut off a horse? I said, no, we don't do that.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

The man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous. That's right. Will you get out of here? You tell him I ain't no band leader. Oh, yeah, I heard that story. Until he got the horse's head. And by the way, people ask me all the time, did you ever cut off a horse? I said, no, we don't do that.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

The man in my position cannot afford to look ridiculous. That's right. Will you get out of here? You tell him I ain't no band leader. Oh, yeah, I heard that story. Until he got the horse's head. And by the way, people ask me all the time, did you ever cut off a horse? I said, no, we don't do that.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And then two months ago, I read an article about guys in Italy that cut off a head and left it in somebody's... You know what they ought to have? A mafia museum. They do. The Mob Museum in Vegas. You've never been? No. There's a Mob Museum. You would love it. And they have like a horse's head. You would love the Mob Museum.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And then two months ago, I read an article about guys in Italy that cut off a head and left it in somebody's... You know what they ought to have? A mafia museum. They do. The Mob Museum in Vegas. You've never been? No. There's a Mob Museum. You would love it. And they have like a horse's head. You would love the Mob Museum.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And then two months ago, I read an article about guys in Italy that cut off a head and left it in somebody's... You know what they ought to have? A mafia museum. They do. The Mob Museum in Vegas. You've never been? No. There's a Mob Museum. You would love it. And they have like a horse's head. You would love the Mob Museum.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

Cement blocks that they put guys' feet in when they put them over the dock. I can't believe you don't know there's a Mob Museum in Vegas. I don't. It's a terrific exhibit. Terrific. Well, a lot of people say Vegas was better when the Mob were in it. 100%. A hundred percent. You know that?

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

Cement blocks that they put guys' feet in when they put them over the dock. I can't believe you don't know there's a Mob Museum in Vegas. I don't. It's a terrific exhibit. Terrific. Well, a lot of people say Vegas was better when the Mob were in it. 100%. A hundred percent. You know that?

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

Cement blocks that they put guys' feet in when they put them over the dock. I can't believe you don't know there's a Mob Museum in Vegas. I don't. It's a terrific exhibit. Terrific. Well, a lot of people say Vegas was better when the Mob were in it. 100%. A hundred percent. You know that?

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And Bugsy Siegel, I mean, the great speech that... Lee Strasberg has in Godfather II, there was this kid. We started out together, did all our first work together. That was Meyer Lansky. Right, Meyer Lansky. He kind of looked up to me. I was a little older. Made a fortune. During Prohibition, we ran molasses to Canada. Your father, too. I'm really impressed with this.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And Bugsy Siegel, I mean, the great speech that... Lee Strasberg has in Godfather II, there was this kid. We started out together, did all our first work together. That was Meyer Lansky. Right, Meyer Lansky. He kind of looked up to me. I was a little older. Made a fortune. During Prohibition, we ran molasses to Canada. Your father, too. I'm really impressed with this.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

And Bugsy Siegel, I mean, the great speech that... Lee Strasberg has in Godfather II, there was this kid. We started out together, did all our first work together. That was Meyer Lansky. Right, Meyer Lansky. He kind of looked up to me. I was a little older. Made a fortune. During Prohibition, we ran molasses to Canada. Your father, too. I'm really impressed with this.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

He had an idea to build a city out of a desert stopover for G.I.s. This was a great man, a man of guts and vision. Someone put a bullet in his eye. That's Mo Green. That's Meyer Lansky because he's saying he's a great man because he built Las Vegas, and he did. It's his idea. It was his idea. What did he say? He said, I didn't get mad. I didn't get mad. I didn't blame anybody.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

He had an idea to build a city out of a desert stopover for G.I.s. This was a great man, a man of guts and vision. Someone put a bullet in his eye. That's Mo Green. That's Meyer Lansky because he's saying he's a great man because he built Las Vegas, and he did. It's his idea. It was his idea. What did he say? He said, I didn't get mad. I didn't get mad. I didn't blame anybody.

Club Random with Bill Maher
Michael Franzese | Club Random

He had an idea to build a city out of a desert stopover for G.I.s. This was a great man, a man of guts and vision. Someone put a bullet in his eye. That's Mo Green. That's Meyer Lansky because he's saying he's a great man because he built Las Vegas, and he did. It's his idea. It was his idea. What did he say? He said, I didn't get mad. I didn't get mad. I didn't blame anybody.