The Debrief With MyronGainesX - May 22, 2023


Ex Fed Meets Ex Mobster @michaelfranzese! The Mob, Chasing The Son Of Sam, Making $8M A Week & MORE!


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1 hour and 12 minutes

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229.75412

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16,679

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Summary

On today's episode of the FreshShit Podcast, we sit down with the legend himself, Michael Franzese, to talk about his life in the New York City underworld, his time in the Colombo crime family, and much more.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 and we are live what's up guys welcome to fresh shit podcast man we're here with a very special
00:00:05.720 guest michael franzese let's get into we got a lot to talk about let's go
00:00:30.000 right and we are back
00:00:59.980 what's up guys welcome to the fresh shit podcast man i am super excited today's episode
00:01:03.660 we're here with the legend himself michael franzese uh guys we're tight for time so i'm
00:01:08.640 never going to read the uh we're not going to go through the normal announcements we're going to go
00:01:11.540 right ahead and introduce you to the special guest mike i know who you are i'm excited to have you
00:01:15.360 here can you introduce yourself to the people for those that might not know well it's great to be
00:01:19.180 here myron and one of my favorite places on the planet miami so it's great to be here thanks for
00:01:24.040 having me and uh many moons ago a couple of uh decades ago i was a copper regime in the colombo
00:01:30.960 crime family one of the five new york mafia families and uh i was in that life for about 20 25 years my
00:01:38.000 dad before me was the underboss of that family very high uh position in that life and um i did quite
00:01:45.120 well i had some success rose from yeah from soldier to capo and uh i was more of a racketeer than a
00:01:51.920 gangster you know there's kind of a separation in that life between racketeers and gangsters
00:01:56.060 racketeers are the guys who really brought the money in and supported the family gangsters did
00:02:00.600 some other work you know and um you know so became a major target of law enforcement right away
00:02:07.440 i had probably 18 arrests i had uh seven criminal indictments two federal racketeering indictments one
00:02:14.100 brought on by giuliani sheesh and um went to trial five times i beat every case beat all five
00:02:20.320 cases and then uh eventually um i went down on a big rico case i took a plea 10-year prison sentence
00:02:27.760 i had a 15 million dollar restitution and went off and do my time did my time and then decided uh for
00:02:34.440 a number of reasons we can get into that i was going to try to make a break from that life and
00:02:39.220 something you don't normally do you know publicly walk away not enter a witness protection program one of
00:02:44.100 the only guys by the way well very fortunate to be able to do that and uh here i am some 20 some
00:02:49.500 odd years later and i'm able to sit down and talk with you absolutely man um so can you take us
00:02:54.860 through um your childhood and what led to you getting into that life yeah well like i said my
00:03:00.920 dad was very very high profile he was kind of like the gotti john gotti of the uh of his time
00:03:06.100 and became a major target of law enforcement right away so i was always around uh you know law enforcement
00:03:13.180 and their tactics were very different back then than they are today and everything's very covert
00:03:17.940 well back then when my dad was under investigation he had seven eight different agencies
00:03:22.960 surveilling him 24 hours a day seven days a week around us all the time yeah so i i really grew up
00:03:28.820 hating the police because i love my dad he was my hero my idol and um you know he didn't want this
00:03:34.580 life for me originally he wanted me to go to school be a doctor and i was on that road till he got in a lot
00:03:39.300 of trouble he was indicted uh three times in the state of new york twice for grand loss and he once for
00:03:44.180 murder uh he beat all of those cases but then he was indicted in federal court for masterminding a
00:03:50.540 nationwide string of bank robbers goes to trial gets convicted they sentenced him to 50 years in
00:03:55.980 prison yeah it was the longest sentence for a bank robbery conspiracy case i think ever given up to that
00:04:01.180 point yeah 1970 and this is in the 60s when they indicted him for that right in the 60s before rico laws
00:04:06.900 before rico yeah oh if it was rico he'd gotten 150 years yeah but um so he goes off he loses all his
00:04:13.240 bills in 1970 he goes away to leavenworth and he was 50 years old when he went in and for me you know
00:04:20.140 add 50 on top of that it's a death sentence right and around the same time joe colombo was organizing
00:04:25.840 the italian american civil rights league we're very close to joey our family my dad was his underboss
00:04:31.040 so he kind of took me under his wing i started meeting a lot of my dad's friends you know mike what do you
00:04:36.440 don't go to school if you don't help your father out he's going to die in prison and i will tell you
00:04:40.520 this you know my dad did obviously a lot of bad things in his life so did i i went to you know
00:04:46.500 jail for a crime i was guilty of but that particular crime that he did 40 years in prison of uh my dad
00:04:53.240 was innocent of he was framed he wasn't a bank robber well the people that testified against him
00:04:57.280 were all drug addicts all drug addicts and just bad people and i'll take that to my grave we
00:05:01.940 investigated that case he was innocent so i'm saying you know i have an obligation
00:05:06.320 i got to try to help my father get out of prison so these bank robbers got caught and they were
00:05:10.040 basically saying that your dad is the one that put them up to doing it is that is that what they
00:05:13.640 basically it was it was very smart yeah they committed all the bank robberies they did everything
00:05:18.180 and they said they were at one meeting with my father where he ordered the bank robber wow that was
00:05:22.940 it they didn't even testify to giving him any money he just ordered the bank robber it was a setup
00:05:28.120 yeah and believe it or not the jury believed it took him three or four days to convict him but they
00:05:32.740 believed it and he got 50 years and it was a setup there's no question because we heard from witnesses
00:05:38.000 afterwards how the fbi was complicit in it what they did and all that but you know well they they
00:05:42.960 had a huge i don't think people and i've talked about this before my other channel but like they
00:05:46.500 had a huge heart on for the mafia back then like nowadays it's all terrorism and you know counter
00:05:51.420 espionage but back then that was their number one thing was going after organized crime namely the
00:05:56.760 mafia so when did your father get into the life what what decade young i mean he was uh you know
00:06:03.000 just just to finish it off my dad was released from prison at the age of 100 he was the oldest
00:06:08.000 inmate in the federal system at the time of his release yeah and he passed away at 103 um but he got
00:06:14.940 in and like he was a tough kid he was born in 1916 or 17 and you know from the 30s on he was involved
00:06:22.180 with wise guys and he got made when he was about 30 years old so back in the 40s 30 30s and 40s so
00:06:28.340 he knew lucky luciano absolutely luciano and all those guys he knew luciano he knew lansky he knew
00:06:33.320 frank costello wow vito genovese you know them all yeah uh the mazzeria all those guys all of them um
00:06:39.620 so he was there during what was it called the custom malaria yes yeah he was there he wasn't involved
00:06:45.980 in it but he was there yeah yeah that was one of the most violent times and then so when lucky
00:06:51.860 luciano uh you know i guess prevailed after all that and ended up making the and just so you guys
00:06:56.640 understand real fast so i'm going to pull up a chart for you guys so you understand what i'm
00:06:59.680 talking about here because some of you guys might be a little confused uh so the hierarchy with uh with
00:07:04.240 the mafia guys this comes from the fbi the ops but uh did they they have it here in a way that is easy
00:07:08.720 to understand right that new york has five main crime families and you were uh high ranking in the
00:07:12.700 colombo yes um and then you got obviously the the top the boss right and then beside him is can you
00:07:19.380 describe each of these positions that's consulieri to the right yes yeah you can hit control plus on
00:07:23.740 it more a little bit so it's bigger for the people to see there you go yeah and the consulieri was kind
00:07:29.220 of like the advisor i mean we've seen that position in the godfather even though it was fictional
00:07:33.280 because you know you got to be italian in order i was gonna say it was an irish guy in the movie
00:07:36.820 yeah yeah yeah but uh you know he did a good job though but uh yeah and and the boss he handpicks
00:07:43.640 that person to be his advisor and really the function of the consulieri is to be a liaison
00:07:49.200 between the soldiers and the boss you got a problem with the boss you go see the consulieri
00:07:54.620 the problem with that the boss picks the consulieri if you got a problem with the
00:07:58.420 the boss and tell the consulieri you're probably going to get killed yeah
00:08:01.240 it doesn't work well and uh and then you have the underboss who's normally the second in command
00:08:08.840 and just so people understand if the boss is eliminated or he dies or whatever he retires
00:08:14.820 the underboss doesn't automatically take over he doesn't they're still among the men they choose
00:08:20.240 who they want and it's it's so it's not an automatic position for the underboss i didn't know that okay
00:08:25.240 yeah and then you have couple regimes or captains and they're appointed by the boss and they're kind
00:08:30.960 of the street bosses and then they're given authority over the soldiers and the soldier is the lowest rank
00:08:36.480 after you take your oath and you're made yeah and uh that's it so um so you were you were a capo and uh
00:08:43.480 and it took you how long did it take it took you quite a bit of time to become a cop it was five years
00:08:48.920 okay yeah so can you tell us real quick about because you were a pre-med student right yes and you decided
00:08:54.480 to to leave that and uh get into the life what made you get into life and what was the trajectory there
00:08:59.700 well i had a meeting with my dad in leavenworth penitentiary and he was away and i said dad i'm not going to school
00:09:05.540 if i don't help you out you're going to die in here you know so we need money for lawyers we got
00:09:09.240 to track down these witnesses because he kept saying i'm innocent i'm innocent yeah and i knew
00:09:14.120 i had to help him so i'm not going to be able to help you go into school you know i got to get out
00:09:17.780 and do it and the guys influenced me when i was you know i was walking the line the picket lines for
00:09:22.900 the italian american civil rights league i was meeting everybody so uh he looked at me he said okay
00:09:28.020 because i was a headstrong kid my mind was made up and he said but if you're going to be on the street i want
00:09:32.420 you on the street the right way and uh to him the right way was to become a member of his life so
00:09:37.660 he proposed me for membership at that point because you know people say well how do you become a member
00:09:42.500 well you can't go up to somebody say i want to join somebody's got to propose you they got to vouch for
00:09:47.100 you and in my case was my dad so you come in what was a day in the life of um and it's because you're
00:09:54.100 an associate first right you come in as an associate you didn't come in and automatically as a made
00:09:57.480 guy you had to earn that what was a day in the life like as a as an associate well here's the deal
00:10:01.740 about two weeks after my dad uh he said go home i'm going to send word downtown they'll send for you
00:10:07.440 so a captain in the family picked me up and took me to see the boss at that point and his name was
00:10:12.740 tom de bella he's passed on now and he said mike i got a message from your father you want to become
00:10:17.400 a member of our life is that true i said yes he said here's the deal from now on 24 hours a day seven
00:10:22.800 days a week you're on call to serve this family the colombo family that means if your mother is
00:10:27.520 sick and dying and you're at her bedside we call you to service you leave your mother you come and
00:10:32.040 serve us yeah from now on we're number one in your life before anything and everything and you do what
00:10:36.740 you're told and then the captain turned around to me andrew and he said i'll be here tomorrow morning
00:10:41.720 eight o'clock wear a suit that was it and that's your order and every day from that point on i'm a
00:10:48.280 recruit and i got to do anything and everything i'm told to do so what did that range like in
00:10:52.720 duties was it like driving people around was it well you know i had at the same time i was in the
00:10:57.300 car business so i always had a good car i would buy a car sell a car so i always drove something nice so
00:11:02.400 i would drive into brooklyn and the boss would say i like your car we're going to use your car you sit
00:11:07.160 in the back i'll drive and so i would sit in the back and they would go wherever and i'm there and i'm
00:11:11.600 just there you know because you can't participate in most anything when you're a recruit but you're
00:11:16.240 observing everything yeah you're kind of learning the ropes and then your day is going to come when
00:11:21.080 you're called upon to do things and you got to do them you know you can't refuse an order so you do
00:11:25.060 what you have to do gotcha um so how long did you do that before you became just about two years
00:11:31.000 two years yeah when i got made there was a an expression in that life that the books were closed
00:11:36.480 from the 1950s to the early to mid 70s they weren't making anybody the only way they would make
00:11:43.140 somebody and this was all five families agreed to this if somebody died in a family you'd be able to
00:11:48.000 bring a new guy in other than that you couldn't do it but in the mid 70s they opened up the books
00:11:52.720 and they said all right we can start to bring some people in so when i got made there was guys waiting
00:11:57.900 20 years to become a made guy yeah wow and then we come in you know a couple of us and we go right
00:12:03.800 to the top you know i was one of the first guys made and uh and that was out of respect for my dad
00:12:08.660 too because he requested it and that was it and they gave him that courtesy uh so that was uh that
00:12:14.260 happened for me in 1975 is there jealousy in a family when it happens when you come in there's
00:12:18.720 always jealousy yeah i mean the older guys i mean it's just like life you know uh they resented the
00:12:24.460 younger guys you know even the older guys that were made for a long time if you come into that life
00:12:29.180 they still feel that they have superiority over you but they don't when you come into that life you
00:12:34.760 you're told we're all equal the boss is even equal to a soldier he may be higher in rank but the boss is
00:12:41.060 not supposed to disrespect a soldier either because we're all made guys and that's the status
00:12:45.960 being made um but the older guys always i had a lot of resentment against me i was one of the younger
00:12:51.400 ones and you got to deal with it you got to learn how to do what was um the fact that your father was
00:12:55.920 so high ranking and you got you were able to get made within two to three years made them a lot
00:12:59.820 jealous oh yeah i mean guys were geez we're waiting 20 years you know and they don't verbally say
00:13:05.260 that to you but you know they're thinking that as a matter of fact one guy did say it to me
00:13:08.840 recently i'm not going to mention his name you know who he is yeah um so can you just can you
00:13:14.860 tell the people uh what being made is and what it takes to be made and then the night that you got
00:13:18.740 made you know being made is is taking the oath and becoming a quote made man and so for me it was
00:13:25.900 halloween night 1975 and they don't prepare you you know every day you go you don't know when it's
00:13:30.720 going to happen because for security reasons they don't want anybody talking is that the oaf of
00:13:34.280 omerta yes omerta and so for me halloween night i got the call that day and i said just be in
00:13:41.140 brooklyn and wear a suit as usual and then i knew something was up that day things were a little bit
00:13:47.520 different than normal and uh so that night you know was six of us that took the oath and just to
00:13:54.620 describe it it was late at night and uh joe colombo's son anthony had a had a uh catering hall and so we did
00:14:02.640 it there it was a secure place and uh we walked into the room the six of us individually both
00:14:08.000 seated at the head of like a horseshoe configuration on the bus consulary to his left and right and all
00:14:13.140 the captains were alongside of them soldiers were not allowed at this only captains and so uh walked
00:14:18.800 down the aisle stood in front of the boss held on my hand took a knife cut my finger some blood dropped
00:14:23.320 on the floor this is a blood oath cupped my hands he took a picture of a saint catholic altar card put it
00:14:28.860 on my hands lit it aflame didn't hurt it burned quickly it was merely symbolic and he said tonight
00:14:33.800 michael francis you're being born again into a new life into cousin ostra violate what you know about
00:14:40.000 this life betray your brothers and you will die burn in hell like the saint is burning in your hands
00:14:44.920 do you accept yes i do and you know when people people don't know what omerta really is they think
00:14:51.860 it's uh you're taking an oath to lie steal cheat kill it's not what it is the oath of omerta is an
00:14:58.040 oath of silence you're not even supposed to admit that the life exists that's the oath of course you
00:15:05.300 do other things along with it but you're not taking an oath to do that you're taking an oath
00:15:08.620 never to betray the life in any way shape or form wow okay so um and there's a bunch of prerequisites
00:15:14.720 right you had to be italian right your father had to be italian okay um never had attended a police
00:15:21.160 academy before no you're not yeah you cannot so like let's say you were a cop and you said you know
00:15:25.340 what i want to get into this life you can't get in no and understand this before you're made they
00:15:29.940 put your name on a piece of paper and they send it around to all five families and everybody sees it
00:15:35.500 and so you have an objection about this guy let us know before we bring him in kind of security
00:15:39.940 reason oh wow so it actually went to the commission level for oh yeah okay yeah before the boss and he
00:15:45.460 distributes to his people we're making this guy you got anything to say about him any reason we
00:15:49.820 shouldn't reference points okay okay and that was among all all the five families so uh what else you had
00:15:54.800 your father had to be italian never had attended a police academy um you had to have done work was
00:15:59.960 there like a prerequisite of how much time you had to be in as an associate before getting made
00:16:03.260 no no like i said some guys 20 years and me it was two years uh you got to do what you're told
00:16:09.780 yeah that's it so they won't let me in
00:16:12.400 unfortunately for you you're out
00:16:18.460 uh so um so also so there were a bunch of rules um back then and there this is a point of contention
00:16:25.980 and i really want to bring this up because people get mad at me when i say this drug trafficking wasn't
00:16:30.280 allowed right um in your day i know guys were involved in it but can you tell us a little bit
00:16:35.320 about that because everyone thinks like oh no the mafia was selling drugs they were blah blah but i tell
00:16:39.460 them all the time you weren't supposed to do it i get beat up every time i say this yeah but you know
00:16:44.340 here's the facts during my era in that life drugs were not allowed they were banned i was told straight
00:16:51.260 out the day that uh uh you know that i sat with tom de bella the first time you deal with drugs you
00:16:57.460 die we don't deal with drugs in any way shape or form the night i got made same thing drugs are
00:17:03.000 off limits not that we were angels and saints it was too much heat we didn't want to hurt kids
00:17:08.140 that's the truth now people come back oh michael vito genovese went away from drug i said my era
00:17:14.500 vito genovese died in the early 60s was different then yeah and i'm not saying that guys weren't doing
00:17:20.200 drugs little deals here and there but we weren't cartels we weren't big drug dealers now the sicilians
00:17:26.720 in italy big drug dealers big heroin dealers big drug dealers we weren't doing it there as a matter
00:17:32.120 of fact i try to tell people why do you think john gott he was in trouble with castellano because
00:17:36.740 his crew was dealing drugs and they weren't supposed to and that's when the whole thing
00:17:40.980 happened with because castellano was going to take him out yep and then john acted first so we were
00:17:46.120 not allowed to deal with drugs i never deal with you i hate anything to do and just so the audience
00:17:50.000 understands paul castellano was the boss of the gambino crime family yes god he was a capo at the
00:17:56.760 time if i'm not mistaken and he was john gott he very famous guys we could put a pic pull a picture
00:18:02.140 up of him real quick back in the 90s and early 80s he was dealing drugs paul
00:18:06.660 castellano didn't like that because obviously it brings heat well let me be clear on that because
00:18:10.620 john is his family and i his crew allegedly was dealing drugs okay it wasn't john directly but
00:18:16.760 his crew allegedly was at least that's what castellano had said yeah and so they they were
00:18:21.760 going to go after him and get him um and he had because it was back then right if i'm not mistaken
00:18:28.300 you had to have the commission sign off on killing guy right and he made guy no not true you didn't
00:18:34.520 not true here's the thing the commission how do i uh how do i describe it it was like the united
00:18:41.120 nations it sounded good but it didn't have a lot of power really i mean and and the commission can
00:18:48.680 never tell the boss of his own family what to do he had his own autonomy okay now if they all agreed
00:18:54.360 on something like when they agreed not to make anybody okay they're all in agreement but a boss wanted
00:18:59.300 to take somebody out in his family he could do it now the other way around if somebody wanted to
00:19:04.800 take a boss that's what i meant yes they should get commission uh sanctioned for that because
00:19:09.800 that's john got you right there from back in the day but uh sorry go ahead continue yeah i mean you're
00:19:14.660 getting trouble for that and and and you know john when he took castellano out i mean it wasn't
00:19:20.200 looked upon well yeah the bosses were not happy about it yeah um yeah they shot him right in front
00:19:25.160 of his favorite steakhouse uh sparks spark there we go sparks um so so the so the drug dealing thing so
00:19:32.800 and what was the main reasons like they didn't want to that they didn't want to do it was was it
00:19:37.580 because the drug trafficking game is just a dirty game in general people a lot of informants a lot of
00:19:41.240 people turn a lot of informants too much heat from the fbi and uh and honestly they didn't want to
00:19:47.460 hurt kids yeah you know a lot of guys that i knew unfortunately in that life their kids got
00:19:52.120 involved in drugs and they always talk bad about it my kid is a junkie and they said they talk bad
00:19:57.460 about it so they didn't want to put that on other kids that's how i was told and i believe it i believe
00:20:02.280 it so you do you have something so back in the day when you were a federal agent would you ever go
00:20:08.000 after the mafia yeah so it's interesting like we did organize crime because after the fbi really
00:20:14.320 focused on um not after 9 11 fbi shifted its focus and went straight to terrorism that's what
00:20:19.600 they want to do national security so homeland security took on a lot of the organized crime
00:20:23.780 but by then uh the mafia wasn't as prominent like you know in 2003 as it was but in the 70s 80s like
00:20:30.660 you know that's all the fbi was going after which they're even back then they were supposed to focus
00:20:34.060 on terrorism but they didn't they focused on the mafia that's where most their money went that's
00:20:37.740 where the racketeering laws went they they had a um like i know what they had a squad assigned to
00:20:42.660 each family which is crazy resources that's family 20 agents for one family right in a an entire squad
00:20:48.880 dedicated to investigating each family that wiretaps on each family so they were dedicating a lot of
00:20:53.180 resources i mean what was the number we were talking about the numbers before it was two agents to each
00:20:56.960 made guy there was 1400 agents in uh um new york assigned to all five families and there was 750 made
00:21:06.460 guys so you had two agents for every made guy wow that's crazy man crazy and now i heard they have less
00:21:11.880 than 100 agents so i'm gonna tell you my theory on that so you understand why they go after you know
00:21:17.320 the mafia because here's the thing we made we made the biggest headlines honestly we don't shoot back
00:21:24.200 we don't go after them they lock us up we we go to trial and if we win we win and they made big
00:21:30.340 headlines on us yep come on you gotta be on they made big name i've talked about i've said the fbi are
00:21:35.080 cloud chasers a million times absolutely yeah we're the easiest guys to go after them you gotta get us but
00:21:40.580 when they get us we put our hands out here lock us up we'll go fight you in court that's it right um
00:21:45.760 so at this point and we're like in the mid 70s you're a made guy now how did your duty shift from
00:21:50.960 being an associate over to being a made guy now well once you're a made guy you know everybody thinks
00:21:56.840 you know the joke that night after we got made all the guys went into a banquet hall we had a banquet
00:22:02.300 you know italians eat after everything right yeah and one of the captains comes in as a joke with a
00:22:07.840 brown paper bag and he says hey boss should i give them their bag of money now because everybody
00:22:12.400 thinks you're coming to that life and they're throwing money at you yeah it's just the opposite
00:22:15.980 you got to be throwing money up yeah you know so the boss said hey don't think that you got a free
00:22:20.320 ride here you you got it's got to earn for us that's what you're here for one of the reasons anyway
00:22:25.440 so once you become made you're your own man at that point you report to your captain obviously
00:22:30.520 uh but you're free to go out and do what you got to do you know make money for yourself because
00:22:34.900 they're not throwing it at you now you know you have certain like me if i needed money i was just
00:22:39.620 starting out if i went to them say hey you know i got a deal can i borrow some money a point a week
00:22:44.400 whatever it is but you got to do it on your own so you know that's where guys get separated you had
00:22:50.600 the guys that were earners and figured things out if you know how to you if you knew how to use that
00:22:55.760 life at that time in business in business it would benefit you greatly yeah and i was fortunate i knew
00:23:01.720 how to use the life i figured it out and i went on to make a lot of money as a result yeah we're
00:23:05.560 definitely going to talk about that before we talk about how you made money what was it like being um
00:23:10.340 in the life in the 70s where it was a crazy time in united states you had all the craziest serial
00:23:14.520 killers running around ted bundy's the you know son of sam all these guys right um and then inflation
00:23:21.000 was high crime was rampant the mafia was at its height what was it like in the 70s it was great for us
00:23:26.640 yeah it was easy pickings for us really i mean we controlled all the unions you know we had connections
00:23:32.560 basically right into the white house during that we had a lot of political power at that point
00:23:36.820 and uh new york was a bad place i gotta be honest before giuliani took over they called it fear city
00:23:42.760 yes and it really was but we weren't in fear and no serial killers came into our neighborhoods
00:23:48.880 that's for sure as a matter of fact you know the son of sam was rampant at that time
00:23:52.780 we were looking for him there's one thing my we were very protective of our neighborhoods there
00:23:57.720 was no crime in our neighborhoods right none whatsoever and uh we were looking for him i almost
00:24:02.500 had him one night we had a tip where he was but we missed him unfortunately but we we were on the
00:24:07.420 lookout for him wow but it was uh yeah and now because he was doing shootings in the bronx and in
00:24:12.280 brooklyn yes yes and queens okay all over all over the boroughs but uh the crazy thing now he got
00:24:18.700 life or triple i don't know what he got but uh he read a copy of my book and a guy i know is writing
00:24:24.440 a book about him it's going to come out soon and they asked me to to write the introduction
00:24:28.100 oh wow that's crazy forward so i wrote it you know i almost got him too yeah does he know that you guys
00:24:34.360 were looking yeah yeah he wanted to meet me i can't get into the prison to see him but he's converted
00:24:38.980 now he's become a man of faith and all that so it's amazing story but i was gonna kill him one night
00:24:44.080 he got off he got off he would have deserved it though yeah some bad yeah no i mean i mean because
00:24:50.220 just to kind of illustrate it for the people back then this guy was running around guys and he was
00:24:54.180 like just shooting random people with i think they call him the 44 killer at the time or the 45 killer
00:24:58.180 yeah well he said his dog told him to do it yes yes you remember that yeah and and there's been
00:25:03.980 a bunch of speculation that you know and he i think he even kind of alluded to it as well that he
00:25:08.040 didn't do it himself yet there was a bunch of people and there was like a cult and all this other
00:25:10.960 stuff behind the scenes but uh but i did not know i mean that makes sense because he was terrorizing
00:25:15.520 your guys's neighborhood yes yeah we were looking for him yeah we would have found him he was he was
00:25:20.900 in trouble um put it that way and and you know it's funny because i was born in 90 right and i was
00:25:27.160 living in new york city from 90 to 99 as a kid and i remember that how dangerous new york city used to
00:25:32.860 be even back then and then when before giuliani came in and really was you know making a push to
00:25:37.260 clean up crime like what was it like being in new york city in that era like was it just
00:25:42.000 i mean the city you couldn't go to time square well we could but i mean time square was you know
00:25:47.300 the porno capital of the country at least back then it was a disgusting place quite honestly you
00:25:52.400 didn't want to be there uh but crime was rampant yeah you know we didn't have trouble with the local
00:25:57.760 police you know as a matter of fact you know in new york with 750 guys many of us had relatives that
00:26:04.800 were police guys yeah or we had neighbors that were in the police force so we got along with
00:26:09.400 them we'd have any trouble our nemesis with the fbi we have trouble with the locals so you know i had
00:26:14.160 gambling operations in the city we were paying off the cops i mean it was it was a good time for us
00:26:18.960 with respect to that yeah and it was a great time i mean i had you know some good clubs back then and
00:26:24.340 uh you know studio 54 was around we we had a lot of fun you know i put it that way when it comes to
00:26:30.200 networking right uh for the i guess the families so to speak what was like the process of meeting
00:26:35.400 people for like business i guess getting things done behind the scenes you would say well it was
00:26:39.380 technical if you were going to meet with a mob guy from another family you had to put it on record
00:26:44.920 you had to go tell your boss look i want to maybe in a business deal with somebody from another crew
00:26:49.560 and we're just letting you know okay the reason for that is twofold number one if you don't put
00:26:54.180 anything on record and you get in an argument and you have to settle it you lose the argument
00:26:57.940 well you didn't tell us about it you're lost don't bother me done and the second thing is they want
00:27:02.720 to know what you're doing so they can get a piece yeah of course so it goes both ways so you know that
00:27:07.780 was uh like even if i had to go to chicago to do business i would tell my boss i'm going to chicago
00:27:13.520 should i check in with anybody they would tell me who to check in with there and i'd say listen out of
00:27:18.040 courtesy coming here i just want to let you know this is what i'm doing wow so you know we we had that
00:27:23.060 kind of respect for one another in that regard um and there were five crime families in new york
00:27:28.140 and then there were how many if i'm not mistaken was it nine nationwide you had nine that were
00:27:32.340 actually part of the commission that that i understand and i've heard different numbers but
00:27:36.740 you know the most consistent number was nine okay you know in chicago and kansas city and cleveland
00:27:43.120 and at tampa at that time so you had uh you had nine families okay and not in the commission so
00:27:49.120 new york city chicago um those are those are strong um presence in vegas too if i'm not mistaken right
00:27:55.480 i mean no no no the the vegas guys were actually from the midwest originally cleveland okay and then
00:28:02.380 it shifted to chicago yeah but so there was no real family in in vegas we just you know we built vegas i
00:28:09.080 was going to say the mafia built not only do we build it it was better to go there when we were
00:28:14.180 there safe better than caught yeah now well not only safer the way corporate america runs things
00:28:19.840 you know very stringent very tight this and that if you came down and you wanted a marker you got a
00:28:25.140 marker you got it now you got to go through a credit check and you know the whole bit but uh and
00:28:30.980 everybody will tell you that everybody that's around today that was around then i'll tell you was so
00:28:35.160 much better when the mob ran the city we didn't hurt anybody come in gamble in our place have fun
00:28:39.960 that's it but um yeah we built vegas no question i started with the desert inn and then it went
00:28:45.580 so you were a huge earner for the month uh back i did pretty good yeah uh i wanted to talk a little
00:28:52.160 bit about that so how'd you so you become a made guy and you what'd you at from that point what did
00:28:57.460 you do to earn i know you had many different well i had both i had legitimate and illegitimate
00:29:02.160 business i had two uh new car agencies i had a mazda agency a chevrolet agency i had interest in
00:29:08.060 some restaurants i had a film production company uh i had a lot of stuff going on and then on the
00:29:13.540 illegal side i had a gambling operation i had a number of bookmakers that checked in and worked
00:29:18.240 with me and i got a cut of what they did and uh i had money out on the street we're all shy those of
00:29:24.300 us that have money we're all lending money out you know one percent two percent usually we lend it to
00:29:29.100 our own guys and then they go lend it out to make money and uh and so we had that going on and then
00:29:34.620 whatever you gotta understand i was kind of the guy on long island parts of brooklyn and so when
00:29:41.400 anybody had a deal they would come to me and i would say okay i'll get involved with you or i wouldn't
00:29:47.720 and you know a lot of people think that you know mob guys sit around their social clubs and they say
00:29:52.140 okay we're going to attack that business we're going to go after that one this one that other than
00:29:55.920 the unions which we did we made sure we had control of the union but as far as business the
00:30:01.360 way it normally happens somebody from inside the company would come to us with a uh a scheme to
00:30:07.420 defraud their company they came to us well we'll protect you we'll give you money if you need it we're
00:30:12.680 not going to snitch on you so they came to us yeah and i can't tell you how many legitimate guys
00:30:17.860 came to me with a scheme to defraud their company yeah so so you mentioned a bunch of things
00:30:23.380 there uh bookkeeping loan sharking not bookkeeping bookmaking bookmaking i'm sorry i'm over here
00:30:28.520 thinking of my real estate yeah bookmaking uh unions uh we'll talk about the gas thing as well
00:30:33.540 can you describe what what uh bookmaking was exactly because people get confused about it how
00:30:38.420 it actually works yeah it's guys on the street taking bets illegally when i say illegally it's against
00:30:43.300 the law to do that because you're not paying taxes so you want to place a bet the horse race sports
00:30:48.540 whatever you go to the bookmaker and you say i want to put x amount of dollars on the lakers
00:30:53.700 tonight you know to win whatever and uh so he he uh he's taking the bets yeah now it's illegal because
00:31:00.460 you're not paying taxes and basically that's it and gambling was illegal at that point i mean it's
00:31:05.040 still illegal if you're not doing it through the government gotta be regulated yeah it's gotta be
00:31:09.120 regulated we taught the government how to be gamblers you know when when uh when off-track betting
00:31:15.300 came into new york you may you may not remember it it's horse racing but you're able to do it
00:31:20.660 outside of the track they set up you know places and the state ran it and the cops came to me and
00:31:26.240 said oh we're gonna put you guys out of business now you know we got uh legal gambling here on the
00:31:31.260 racetrack i said yeah watch why because when you came to us as a bookmaker we gave you credit
00:31:37.320 that's it all right just tell us what you want and we were very good at collecting our money you
00:31:41.820 weren't going to beat us but you go to the state you got to pay right then and there what happens
00:31:47.480 80 of the time you're going to lose yeah so when you lose what do you do i don't have any money let
00:31:52.540 me go back to the bookmaker to see if i can make this up they increased our business yeah yeah these
00:31:56.760 guys would never gamble before now we're gambling with us and then what do you think happens after
00:32:01.040 that myron they went bankrupt yeah they didn't even know how to do it i said you should have called
00:32:05.980 us up we would have ran it for you oh boy so so you guys so you're making so you're doing the
00:32:12.440 and you guys had influence with some of these sports right obviously you know basketball whatever
00:32:17.420 you know hey we need you to score because it wasn't winning and losing it was spread right
00:32:21.540 it's all about the spread okay it's not winning and losing all about the spread can you describe
00:32:25.120 that a little bit as far as like i'll give you an example yeah you know let's let's go to college
00:32:29.340 let's go to basketball okay five guys on the court's easy right so we used to watch some of the
00:32:34.360 st john's syracuse in new york we watched the players they used to come and hang out some of
00:32:39.140 the clubs we were in brooklyn queens long island the city we'd hang with them we kind of pick up
00:32:44.520 one of them out let's say he's a guard right he's playing for st john's and uh hey how you doing you
00:32:51.040 know in the club we treat you buy him a drink hey we love your team we love the way you play you guys
00:32:55.340 are great we're big fans of yours yeah so he comes he loves that we send a few women over to make
00:33:00.340 him feel good right before you know it he's coming back every week he wants to be around us right we
00:33:05.300 were fun to be around yeah you guys are making big money yeah so now now we kind of move on i say
00:33:10.300 come here sit down i want to talk to you i said you're a senior right yeah you know you're a pretty
00:33:14.380 good player but you're six foot two you're not going to the pros you know that right yeah i know
00:33:18.340 how much money you got in your pocket oh i'm broke yeah broke every time you play they fill up
00:33:23.580 that arena 15 000 people i said you're broke i said i heard your girlfriend's pregnant you know
00:33:29.360 your mother's driving this old jalopy car i said why should you be broke i said let me educate you
00:33:34.060 tomorrow night you're favored to win by 10 points don't win by 10 don't lose the game we want you to
00:33:39.960 win we're fans don't win by 10 win by five win by six win by four i said don't cover the spread you do
00:33:47.620 that i take 10 grand out of my pocket that's the number and i push it over he never seen that in
00:33:53.540 his life yeah all right i said put it away go buy your girl but i said you do that for me 10 times
00:33:58.840 you got 100 grand i said who's better than you very hard to to pass up yeah because they're still
00:34:05.920 winning yeah i'm not going to tell them hey i said who's going to get your ball you know who's going
00:34:10.580 to know yeah you know forget about it don't worry about it don't tell anybody forget about it
00:34:15.540 forget about it that's a good i heard that when i heard that line my wife will tell you i was the
00:34:21.020 only one in a movie that cracked up because it was so real she looked at me like what are you laughing
00:34:25.800 you don't get it it was so real that's what the movie donnie brass everything forget about it you
00:34:30.400 know what are we gonna eat tonight forget about it you know forget about it everything that's a good
00:34:34.860 offer though so yeah and i mean this is the the 80s now at this point right i'm guessing so at
00:34:38.980 ten thousand dollars in the 1980s guys the equivalent's about 20k today you put that in front of a
00:34:43.040 college kid's face that doesn't make any money that's a bunch of money back then yes um even
00:34:47.480 today in today's by today's standards so so you guys were doing this and he fixing the games and
00:34:52.600 uh making quite a bit of money off of spread and with basketball right a good player can influence it
00:34:57.200 easily and listen a referee yeah you got a referee let's say christmas time you know he wants to make
00:35:04.940 a few extra dollars you know a referee he can call a foul every time they go down to court or he
00:35:10.400 don't have to call it right away it's up to him right so you know what favored to win by 10 the
00:35:15.300 lakers are playing whoever back then kobe bryan hey what do you do put him on a bench for an extra
00:35:19.760 few minutes that's how you manipulate the spread you know what i mean yeah instead of winning by 10
00:35:25.040 you know they win by seven he puts 25 grand in his pocket who's gonna know so that's why golden
00:35:29.580 say it lost no we know what it lost bro damn it who's gonna know right think about um so uh so was
00:35:36.620 basketball the easiest to influence i'm assuming probably because basketball obviously tennis
00:35:40.180 okay you got to get to one person yeah you know when there's a one-man sport like that you know
00:35:46.120 easy but basketball pretty easy because you got five guys on the court and any one of them can make
00:35:51.940 a difference so basketball tennis boxing were you guys in football boxing big yeah football as well
00:35:57.900 football yes but football is a little bit difficult you know look i had a bunch of pros
00:36:02.220 that were gambling with bookmakers that i i had and you know the pro you're the same thing you know
00:36:06.860 i had a bookmaker call me up he said hey so-and-so from one of the new york teams he's into me for 50
00:36:12.320 grand should i cut him off i says why would you cut him off you're writing something on a piece of
00:36:17.480 paper it didn't cost you anything let him get into you for 250 grand wow and then bring him to me
00:36:22.700 yeah right then he'd bring him to me i sit down hey you owe us a lot of money oh you didn't know
00:36:28.380 i was involved sorry we didn't introduce ourselves my name is so-and-so i said listen you owe us a lot
00:36:33.180 of money how you gonna pay well you know what i'm gonna give you a break i said i love the team i like
00:36:38.620 you as you don't have to pay me all at once i says you bring me x amount of dollars a week i said no
00:36:43.760 no i'm gonna charge you two points a week on a 250 you make sure you bring it every monday you play
00:36:48.080 sunday bring it to me on monday don't forget he'll bring it because he wants to get out of the room
00:36:52.800 yeah yeah he'll bring it three four five six weeks what do you think he's doing he's down the street
00:36:57.940 betting with the next bookmaker to hopefully make up my debt this is what guys do that again
00:37:02.740 so finally i bring him in again hey you missed your juice and we got a problem but i'll tell you
00:37:07.400 i like you so much here's what you're gonna do you're a quarterback you know first three times you
00:37:11.900 get the ball put it in the hands of the other team i don't care how you do it you're running back
00:37:16.360 first time you get to put it on the ground wow fumble and that's how you try to manipulate
00:37:21.980 doesn't work every time but over the course of a season you're going to come out ahead wow
00:37:25.940 and that just goes to show like how much power you guys had back then where you guys were influencing
00:37:30.120 you know sports at a professional level collegiate level etc so how much was that bringing in on a
00:37:35.660 weekly basis just the bookkeeping alone sorry the book making excuse me i'm thinking my real i'm
00:37:39.960 trying to hire a bookkeeper right now for my real estate shows you're a legit guy my you just proved
00:37:43.460 yourself yeah how much were you earning from the from the bookmaking i was a lot of my look a smart
00:37:49.300 bookmaker makes a lot of money especially in the new york area because we have so many teams there's
00:37:53.880 so much going on so many people i mean you know hundreds of thousands a week yeah good ones wow and
00:37:59.840 this is an 80 so this is a lot of money so you were also involved in uh lending money out uh which
00:38:05.440 people know as there's terms for it's a loan sharking and it was the term shylocking shylock yeah um can you
00:38:10.660 describe that a little bit for the people how that worked very simple business guy you know can't go
00:38:14.920 to a bank whatever comes to me for money i'll give it to you one percent a week you know you make sure
00:38:19.500 that you got the ability to pay because if you don't pay it's a problem for you it's not a problem
00:38:23.400 so you know you check it out okay i'll give it to you boom and a lot of times if you don't pay you
00:38:30.440 take the business over you know i acquired a chevrolet dealership that way i lent the guy a lot of money
00:38:36.460 plus he was a gambler in trouble with one of my bookmakers and i said look the agency is mine
00:38:41.640 you can work for me i said but it's mine i said maybe at some point in time if things are good i
00:38:46.100 give it back to you but right now i own it yeah okay so what was it so how much would you typically
00:38:52.720 lend out and what interest rates were you charging on people well it depends you know to my crew
00:38:56.860 guys that weren't great earners around me i would say here you know here's 50 grand 100 grand put it out
00:39:02.040 on the street you pay me a point a week you can put it out for three or four points but do it smart
00:39:06.700 do it with somebody that's going to pay you back you know so if a guy puts it out at three points
00:39:11.740 and he's giving me a point he's making two grand a week it's not bad right so you know i gave it to a
00:39:17.220 lot of my my crew to put out and then again if it was a business that i thought you know was it was
00:39:23.020 worth it i would give it to them it could have been a couple hundred grand so whatever they needed
00:39:27.680 what happens if you don't get if you don't get paid well listen you know there's oh they're
00:39:32.420 gonna break your legs and all of that stuff now guys may say that but when a guy owes your money
00:39:36.520 you want to get paid yeah so you'll you'll kind of help him along a little bit at least i did i said
00:39:41.020 i don't want to put him in the hospital i want to get paid yeah now if he's making a fool out of you
00:39:45.260 and he's going here and there and is you know then it's a different story you know uh but that doesn't
00:39:50.700 happen very often you know because and if it does then you're a fool for giving it to him because you
00:39:55.820 didn't check the guy out you know so um with me it normally worked out okay so very rarely do you
00:40:02.180 actually have to like get someone beat no i never had to do that never had to do it never had to do
00:40:06.080 it one time my crew they were smart sometimes were smart they would they would borrow the money for me
00:40:11.580 and then they'd pay me the juice they were paying me got me even and then all of a sudden the guy they
00:40:17.480 landed to ran away or something oh you know what i mean so they didn't okay they paid me sure to pay
00:40:22.320 you even if they took it out to make sure that i got all my money back okay so if i let them 15
00:40:26.880 grand or whatever 10 grand and they're paying me a point a week they made sure that the interest
00:40:31.620 covered my principal yeah and then all of a sudden the guy left town or a guy got who knows whatever
00:40:36.760 and because it was my crew i let him go sometimes one of two guys that was smart that way actually i
00:40:41.640 appreciated their ingenuity yeah you guys are smart you know so um so you're a capital how many guys
00:40:47.340 did you have working under under you at this point well you know because of the the gas business that
00:40:52.860 i was in i had about 300 guys on 300 guys yeah yeah because i had the russians that were involved
00:40:58.140 with me and they had a a sizable crew and then i had my own crew and uh it was a lot of guys
00:41:04.080 so what was it like because you know obviously you're making all this money you have all these
00:41:09.440 people working underneath you that must have been very stressful what was that like man
00:41:12.420 you know myron i i stress you know i had to go to the doctor the other day and i had a little issue
00:41:19.100 nothing serious at all i had an ulcer right now and she says to me do you have a lot of stress
00:41:24.240 i said i don't know what stress is i've been a certain way my whole life i don't know is it stress
00:41:29.540 or whatever you call it so let's put it to back then i was very on top of things i'm i'm a lot more
00:41:36.640 lax business-wise than it was then back then i was on top of everything i was 24 7 i'm working
00:41:43.080 i'm watching i'm doing everything between you know being in brooklyn and doing what i had to do
00:41:47.800 coming out to where my businesses was i was very active in that regard yeah um so i mean i'm an
00:41:55.360 early riser i'm up six o'clock even if i'm out all night you know four o'clock in the morning and
00:42:00.320 come home six six thirty i'm up and i'm out early so but i had a lot going on so i had to pay
00:42:06.060 attention you know otherwise i would have got hurt so we we talked about the loan sharking the
00:42:10.100 book making um unions the mafia was notorious for infiltrating unions can you describe that and how
00:42:15.940 that would go about we installed our people in the unions so the delegates the uh you know the the
00:42:24.740 we had guys at the top in the union so we controlled it you know how did we use the unions
00:42:30.880 we shook down a lot of people i had the restaurant and bartender's union they were mine i mean local
00:42:36.040 i didn't have the whole union but i had the local i had the security guards union they were mine
00:42:40.280 i had i had nine nuclear power plants that we had our security guards oh now listen to this my you
00:42:48.120 may not know this but you check it out when a nuclear power plant goes down it's not used anymore
00:42:54.100 they got to have security there for 100 years really afterwards yes that was the law back then i
00:42:59.240 don't know if it is now so i had security guards around there doing nothing and collecting big money
00:43:03.480 because they were there so we controlled that union and then we had them in the hotels and all of that
00:43:07.800 and uh the delegate the the union president was my guy so they answered to me and restaurant
00:43:14.520 and bartenders i said okay we're going to go pick that restaurant big day they got 25 employees
00:43:19.080 go in and tell them we're going to unionize they don't want to unionize right so i'll go in and say
00:43:24.420 listen i heard you got a union problem i can help you out well how can you do that i said well
00:43:28.340 they're going to put a picket line out there they're going to stop everything nobody's going to be able
00:43:31.740 to come into your place yeah you don't want the union no we don't want to yes all right
00:43:35.420 every christmas give me figure it out you got union you're gonna have to pay pension fund health
00:43:40.880 insurance the whole bit double time when they work all the time and that's it that's union rules
00:43:45.520 i'm going to save you all that money every christmas give me 25 grand and they're out oh okay great
00:43:51.560 so you would prevent them from unionizing yeah ah okay and then then i would come back and say listen
00:43:57.900 there's another local i i can't help but you know it's a different crew i can't die so here's what
00:44:03.000 you got to do put the union in here only you put one how many employees you got 25 make two of them
00:44:08.340 union people don't worry about the other 23 so now my union is in here nobody could ever bother you
00:44:13.580 again i'm only going to make you take two guys instead of this other ones you're going to come in
00:44:17.800 and make you unionize everybody so now it's a union shop i saved them a lot of money yep and nobody
00:44:23.800 else can come in there wow so there's all different schemes on how you do it yeah but let me tell you
00:44:29.120 something you control the union you control the country yeah the teamsters union two and a half
00:44:33.500 million members what do politicians want they want money and they want votes yeah we had all the money
00:44:39.380 in the world in our pension funds and we had all the votes you wanted you got two and a half million
00:44:43.540 teamsters you want us to vote for you you know as politicians it bought a lot of politicians speaking
00:44:48.680 to politics you made a video on youtube that went viral very popular one about trump and his
00:44:53.940 affiliation with you know pretty much like the lifestyle could you uh talk about that you know
00:44:59.580 let me a lot of people think that trump was mobbed up he wasn't mobbed up it's not true you know trump
00:45:05.660 had to deal with the unions because any contractor in new york couldn't get anything built unless they
00:45:10.780 built with dealt with the unions we controlled all the unions you had to deal with us now uh trump was
00:45:16.600 represented by roy cohen and i knew roy and roy did represent some mob guys he represented tony
00:45:23.200 solano tried to represent me but i didn't hire him so you know there was an affiliation there but trump
00:45:29.200 was not controlled by the mafia he was not a guy that we sat down with or not at all so any rumor about
00:45:35.940 that is absolutely untrue yeah and uh because back then to because you guys controlled controlled the
00:45:42.020 construction yes like all the buildings you guys see in new york city the mafia probably had some play
00:45:46.400 in those every one of them yeah being i had to yeah i i had the biggest construction job for
00:45:52.000 uh apartments into uh co-ops in all of the country at one time was in queens oh yeah we we uh we had uh
00:46:00.560 3800 conversions from apartments to co-ops and i controlled all the unions there in that job so with
00:46:08.180 construction right because that's a typically unions are strong when the construction business you know
00:46:13.080 whether it's you know erecting buildings windows etc so would it be kind of similar to the restaurants
00:46:17.260 where you'd be like hey these guys want to come in and unionize but you just pay me this and we're
00:46:21.020 not going to same thing or in this particular job same way the uh the uh supervisor was a guy i knew
00:46:28.720 yeah and he brought the deal to me he said michael before the unions come in here because they're
00:46:32.500 going to come a job that big they're going to come he says can you handle it for me absolutely
00:46:36.680 so the guy i can name him the uh the builder's name was jerry gutterman and i sat down with jerry
00:46:42.640 i said jerry the union is going to be all over you he says no doubt let's make a deal now i said you
00:46:48.300 make my guy is going to be we're going to have to bring a union in because if i don't bring it in
00:46:52.140 somebody else will but same deal you put one of my guys in each one of the trades is like paid for
00:46:58.000 and planned and they're going to start building yeah okay this after okay okay i said you put one of
00:47:02.380 my guys in i want to shop steward i want this that that that i said i'm going to charge you x amount
00:47:07.600 of money per apartment you pay me i said so that's how we'll keep and i'll keep the rest of the union
00:47:14.100 out i probably saved them 10 million dollars yeah i said but aside from that i said all your trades
00:47:19.220 all your subcontractors you come to me first so you got a painter i'll bring him in gotcha you got
00:47:24.960 a plumber i'll bring him in so we were making all the subcontractors but we still saved them a lot
00:47:30.040 of money yeah because i said jerry do the math you should know we're in wow so it's not like we
00:47:35.160 were shaking them down we were helping them so i noticed they get very good offers that you can't
00:47:39.300 really resist yeah no it's powerful that was a great line i wish i would have came up with that
00:47:44.020 and honestly that no i'll make you know you can't refuse because i've always like wondered about that
00:47:49.060 like what like what what incentivize them so strongly but it's clearly it's like you guys save them a lot
00:47:54.040 of money so it's a win-win because they don't have to unionize at the highest level where they're
00:47:57.920 paying a bunch of money out you guys are able to come in and control it exactly and uh everybody
00:48:02.320 makes money exactly and then i said well michael you know if we're forcing you guys pushing the
00:48:07.060 union they wouldn't be here i said no that's not true that's what their job their job is to unionize
00:48:11.100 people yeah so whether we if we weren't there they're coming in and they'll put up picket lines
00:48:15.820 and they'll do all the legitimate stuff that you do we're going to prevent that so okay so with the
00:48:21.340 with the unions how much were you earning roughly a month with that back then that job i earned a ton
00:48:26.220 of money i mean it was it was a couple of million dollars i remember exactly we had a lot of money
00:48:30.600 coming in plus i put a lot of people to work because we had the subcontracting too on a major
00:48:34.980 job did you get paid during the job or after the job during the job oh during okay yeah we don't wait
00:48:39.480 periodically okay yeah um and then how much were you making from the from the loan sharking roughly
00:48:44.220 per month if you remember you know i i had over a million dollars out on the street at one time
00:48:48.340 yeah so figure one point two points you know i worked between a point and two okay you know i never i never
00:48:55.500 choked anybody is you're giving somebody making them pay five percent a week on a that's a lot
00:49:00.800 of money you know you don't want to hurt somebody you want to have to pay yeah so i was making a lot
00:49:04.440 of money so you're making one percent and you were charging this interest on a weekly level or like
00:49:08.400 week no that's a week oh wow so between one to five percent a week every week oh wow okay yes
00:49:14.020 that's smart 52 weeks a year no days off for christmas or anything else every week and and your guys
00:49:20.340 and that's smart because i i was wondering like if you were the one that actually lent the money out but
00:49:23.420 you actually had a layer of separation so you'd give it to your guys yes they would lend the money
00:49:27.140 out they'd be responsible for getting the money back to you yes okay there are times when i dealt
00:49:32.100 directly with the with the business guy if i thought he was you know a high quality guy i would deal
00:49:37.080 direct but right you know you try to insulate yourself in case one of them go bad and they want
00:49:41.580 to start telling you know so you try of course so um i think one of the and correct me if i'm wrong
00:49:47.640 here one of the most profitable schemes you had was with the gas station gasoline oh man can you can you
00:49:53.180 take us through this uh how this all worked i'll try to break it down quickly because this was a
00:49:58.100 seven-year operation for me i will tell you this you know according to the government and everybody
00:50:04.420 else it was the biggest scheme that the mob had since the days of prohibition and i can verify that
00:50:10.780 i mean at you know at the height of our operation we're bringing in five eight ten million dollars a
00:50:15.540 week a week and it was all stolen gas tax money defrauding five to eight million dollars a week
00:50:22.200 yeah because we were we were selling a half a billion gallons of gas a month taking down 30 40
00:50:27.480 cents a gallon you know whatever the market would bear and um you know again it was a guy in the gas
00:50:33.820 business he had a small operation two guys from another family were shaking him down for money he ran
00:50:40.480 to me michael helped me you know i want to be with you i don't like these guys they're extorting me
00:50:45.880 whatever so uh make a long story short i got made these two guys go away and i went into business with
00:50:53.600 him and after two weeks you know he somebody that i put to watch him comes to my house and puts a uh
00:51:03.500 a box down on my kitchen table 320 000 and that was the first week's take when we got into business
00:51:10.980 with tax money well he got my attention and i grew that operation from that 320 to what i described
00:51:18.280 eight to 10 million a week and i grabbed the russians came into business with me they had a
00:51:23.100 number of stations and they were wholesalers they couldn't get licensed i had the licenses
00:51:27.320 and uh it was a tremendous operation yeah and so how because the way you uh because i've read about
00:51:35.560 this so you basically would do it for a period of time the government will catch on but by then it was
00:51:40.380 too late right you guys had made your money in your i had this may sound similar because we heard
00:51:44.540 something like this in the news recently i don't want to get into politics but okay i had 18 well i
00:51:49.680 really do but i won't i had 18 shell companies they were shell companies and they were licensed uh to
00:51:57.340 collect tax on every gallon gallon of less gasoline so we would run one license and one company
00:52:03.480 i had an accounting system second to none so the government we were supposed to report on a
00:52:09.400 monthly basis which we did and pay taxes on a monthly basis which we didn't but we were able
00:52:14.740 to hold them off for 10 months to a year after that they would come down on us but we would close the
00:52:20.840 office shred the license and go on to the next license that was it so but money we needed you
00:52:28.260 control the license we control the license and the the uh we had to open up bank accounts so we had
00:52:33.220 a bank account each one of those company names you know um because we were getting wired money
00:52:39.160 all different transactions yeah so but it was a daisy chain yeah one company goes down you just move to
00:52:44.660 the next the feds come up to the office it's closed nobody's there there's no license anymore was it
00:52:49.040 coming irs or probably a department of revenue it was a department of treasury yeah yeah they came after
00:52:54.560 so um but we held them off for for uh seven years yeah until my partner got in trouble on an unrelated
00:53:02.400 case and he became a an informant and he he blew the whistle he snitched on you yeah well he yeah and
00:53:08.600 he he told them what they what we were doing i had two feds two agents come to me maybe halfway through
00:53:14.700 this they came to my dealership we got to talk to you so i go outside what do you guys want
00:53:19.300 i was always courteous to them they said well you listen michael we know you're in this business
00:53:24.660 we're getting we know taxes are being stolen we don't know how you're doing it tell us how you're
00:53:30.420 doing it we'll give you a pass yeah right yeah yeah you're my right yeah yeah i was born in the
00:53:36.700 morning but not yesterday so um i said what are you talking about i don't have a good gas business i go
00:53:42.880 to the gas station i fill up my car you know they they got so mad at me you don't want to help us i said
00:53:47.980 i can't help you i always you want a car i'll give you a car wholesale i said but i can't help
00:53:53.640 you with this yeah and uh they had no idea yeah so when my partner became an informant he told them
00:53:59.660 everything the way we're doing he's the one that blew the whistle on on the whole operation where's
00:54:03.960 he now he's dead no we didn't kill him no he went to jail he went to jail and then he came home and
00:54:12.680 then he died so like um did you like put like like how'd you guys do it did you guys like kind of
00:54:17.520 mess with the get the pump itself where it would like stop at a certain point no no no it had nothing
00:54:21.780 to do with that it was different back then no we we we were buying we were putting gas in branded
00:54:27.860 stations unbranded stations everywhere it was just we buy it off of mobile oil bp shell we were buying
00:54:35.500 from all the big guys okay and just selling it right back to their stations they didn't care because we
00:54:40.880 were buying the gas from them anyhow yeah whatever way it ended up in their station so they didn't care i was
00:54:45.100 just trying to figure out like how you guys didn't end up paying like did you guys do it with maybe
00:54:48.600 dealing with the books you own a gas station right you're paying a dollar a gallon the tax at that
00:54:54.840 time was maybe 30 cents yeah all right you're paying a dollar a gallon because you're paying
00:54:59.160 at 30 cents so i go to you say hey how much you're paying for gas i'm paying a dollar a gallon
00:55:02.860 how would you like to pay 90 cents 10 cents difference is a big deal for a station right
00:55:08.020 per pump oh great per gallon sorry yeah i'm going to sell you the gas and on the receipt it'll say
00:55:11.840 all taxes included that's all they care about hey i'm paying i don't know what these guys doing
00:55:16.400 you know what i mean so i would go we would send my guys into a mobile station how many uh loads of gas
00:55:23.500 you get in a week oh we're getting six from mobile okay take four from mobile take two from us
00:55:28.720 we'll sell it to you at this price great we'll bring it to you in the middle of the night great
00:55:32.080 before you know it they want to buy all the gas from us i said you can't do that you're a branded
00:55:36.340 station you got to at least buy something from mobile they didn't want to buy any and meanwhile
00:55:40.680 we were driving the prices down at the pump you guys would have loved us now you were a guest
00:55:45.360 yeah much cheaper just because of us right so people didn't care you know they called us the
00:55:51.340 robin hoods you know we stole from the rich and gave to the poor yeah and ourselves good job man
00:55:55.520 because yeah because you guys took a healthy cut in the middle you know yeah because you guys are
00:55:59.340 basically putting the price back on the the savings would go back to the government basically and then
00:56:03.600 the people saved the money and the government had to pay exactly okay yeah don't cover some chats uh
00:56:07.820 yeah we can hit some chats real quick and then we'll talk about i got twitter yeah uh we're gonna go
00:56:12.200 ahead and kill uh fed reacts guys come on over to youtube fresh and fit come on over to youtube all
00:56:16.300 the fed people um and then also come on over uh from twitch and twitter and i'm gonna read some of
00:56:21.180 these chats because they're piling up uh but i hope you guys are enjoying this interview man
00:56:24.780 this is great man like the video guys subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and then also
00:56:28.560 go subscribe to mike's channel uh michael francis on youtube um and it's all the links are below so
00:56:33.660 i'll read these real quick we got here um julio ponte goes el ja morant got suspended again for
00:56:39.300 flashing gun on ig live that's going to cost him half himself millions of dollars in the future yeah
00:56:43.480 very dumb uh social media definitely gets people in trouble jim jim's travis goes the crossover we
00:56:48.360 need it i read michael's book a while back and the story of how he met his wife really stood out to me
00:56:51.920 as it basically proves what you guys say about may selection real quick as well how you met your
00:56:56.040 wife yeah i'm filming a movie here in south florida miami and fort lauderdale and uh it was my
00:57:02.420 production company we brought it was a dance movie and we brought 20 dancers from california la to work
00:57:08.200 in the film she was one of the dancers she's coming out of a pool one day when back at a hotel i saw her
00:57:13.700 it was like love at first sight you know beautiful and uh as it turns out she's my wife of 38 years
00:57:20.700 right now and i fell very much in love with her and you know she turned my life around it's it's all
00:57:26.920 let me tell you something you got a good woman you know and she was she was a good woman then she's a
00:57:32.260 better woman now and uh it was as a result of my meeting her and falling in love with her that i left the
00:57:38.860 life because guys look i'll say this i don't talk bad about the guys in that life because i was one
00:57:43.660 of them you know i just happened to be very fortunate i had a lot of friends in that life
00:57:47.220 you know i didn't leave the life because i was mad at anybody i left the life because i called a mob
00:57:53.080 life an evil lifestyle not the guys but the lifestyle because i don't know any family of any member of that
00:57:59.900 life that hasn't been totally devastated including my own not my wife and kids mother brothers and
00:58:05.700 sisters i had a kid sister died of an overdose of drugs my brother was a drug addict 25 years is
00:58:11.640 why i hate drugs can't tell you what he put us through my mom you know 33 years without her
00:58:16.520 husband yeah when she died in 2012 her relationship with my dad was horrible was ugly my dad 40 years in
00:58:24.080 prison a mess a mess so and every family is like that in some way shape or form so i said i i just fell
00:58:30.820 in love with this girl she's 20 years old 21 am i going to marry her and this is going to be her life
00:58:35.700 if i ever get out of prison you know no way so as a result of that i tried to make the break from
00:58:41.760 that life she was my motivation and then you know a long story after that but uh you know i became a
00:58:47.900 person of faith she's a strong christian woman and and as a result of that i'm here today if it wasn't
00:58:53.400 for her i'm dead or in prison the rest of my life wow wow without a doubt inspiring uh what do we got
00:58:59.520 here okay uh diego goes hey myron i've heard this before on your show but i never really understood
00:59:03.920 what you meant but you said don't keep money in a bank account uh but invest it would i put all of
00:59:09.040 my money on like stock account or where would i keep it watch one of our money mondays man uh and
00:59:13.860 we talk about where to invest it but i'm big into real estate as you guys know that's why i keep saying
00:59:17.000 bookkeeping because i'm in the process of figuring one out right now uh and then there uh the real
00:59:21.500 wade goes uh mr michael francis what are your thoughts on the former mayor uh rudy giuliani and
00:59:26.060 are you and sammy the bull friends uh giuliani i hadn't seen him he tried to put me away for a
00:59:32.360 hundred years he told me in a courtroom when he when he tried me he said if i convict you you're
00:59:36.840 going to get double what your father got a hundred years fortunately i beat the case or i would be in
00:59:41.680 jail for a long time uh and 30 years later he and i were on a radio show together oh really not only
00:59:48.300 that this book my book mafia democracy when when my publisher heard him on the radio show he said you
00:59:53.640 think rudy will read the forward i mean write the forward because we got along really good he said
00:59:58.440 michael i've been watching you for 30 years i really think you're reformed i'm proud of what
01:00:02.360 you did i'm glad i didn't put you in jail so well thank you that's awesome but uh i said listen i
01:00:07.060 don't know if he's going to write the forward but hey i'll take a shot so i go to him and he wrote the
01:00:11.060 forward that's awesome unbelievable right just shows you how life turns around that's great uh so
01:00:16.040 yeah i mean for as far as i'm concerned he's fine and sammy the bull we're friends now you know
01:00:21.300 sammy's you know a little bit different but i respect what he's doing now i like his family
01:00:26.940 very much and you know we got a little thing going together he just did something that we did
01:00:31.720 he put it on one of his uh one of his platforms i don't know yeah but yeah i mean look i i'd rather
01:00:36.560 be friends with everybody myron than enemies with anybody yeah what is it bad so yeah you know our
01:00:41.660 past is our past yeah and go go get that book guys because rudy giuliani for those you guys that
01:00:45.680 don't know he basically he led the you know the charge on the mafia back then we used the rico laws
01:00:51.340 right that were created in the 70s and he really went hard in the 80s on the on the mafia so
01:00:55.360 that's really interesting that he wrote your forward that's amazing yeah i was shocked that
01:00:58.920 he did it and a great forward i gotta tell you grateful i was shocked uh that's wild um speaking
01:01:05.600 of which um when your father was sentenced what did he he told the judge something uh in court judge
01:01:11.080 says mr francis you got anything you want to say to the court you know he just gets sentenced for 50
01:01:15.920 years my father looks at him he says yes your honor i'm gonna fool you and everybody in this
01:01:20.120 courtroom i'm gonna do the whole 50 bam and you know what when he was released he did the whole 50
01:01:25.340 with good time he did 40 but with good time that's the whole 50 down yeah unbelievable that's crazy
01:01:30.900 yeah yeah um what do we got here uh we got uh angelic oh shout out to angie myron don't forget
01:01:37.480 my questions please okay i got you angie uh we got ever overton uh in the house as well uh he goes uh
01:01:43.700 get a michael stick on me great guess yeah no i've been excited for this
01:01:47.180 and then when do we what else we got here uh and then various letters goes i appreciate you
01:01:55.100 fresh and myron always bringing value to everyone keep up the great work and have a great day
01:01:58.360 get into the ceo network as always a big bossing i appreciate that thanks bro uh and then boys a
01:02:03.900 real wise guy on the pod yo fnf is on another level ps chris still a bum but he's a bum okay he's
01:02:08.840 out bum fantastic i think he meant to say hour never be a failure i want to be top one
01:02:13.320 point zero one percent uh of men if possible i'm 25 bio major work nine to five hits the gym
01:02:18.500 six foot tall i plan to go to med school be a doc what else to do hey man that's going to keep your
01:02:22.440 hands full right there so just focus on the right path bro um so okay uh you had a jet i had a jet i
01:02:30.360 had a lear jet 25a and i had a bell helicopter can you tell us about that man like having a jet
01:02:36.320 it was cool i mean especially i used it mostly to come down here so it was great and and i i didn't
01:02:42.980 have to pay for uh any of the uh airport because i was selling them jet fuel everywhere here and for
01:02:48.180 i was indicted here in florida too wow out of case here too on the gas business but uh i want i want
01:02:53.440 to say something now i want all your your listeners to understand i'm not in that life anymore because
01:02:58.600 of this young lady i've been able to you know transform my life and for the past 25 years i've been
01:03:05.200 doing my best to give back you know i speak to a lot of youth i go into detention centers i give my
01:03:10.640 testimony you know all over the world basically and i recently created a platform called mob ties
01:03:17.020 and you can go on mob ties vip.com guys yeah please go on and look at it and uh what we're doing here we
01:03:24.780 uh we have put together a team of people to help people in their personal development and their business
01:03:30.260 life and we created a community of people and it's really caught on i mean people are the the uh the
01:03:37.000 response that we're getting from people that we've been able to help is great and so please go on that
01:03:42.120 mob ties vip.com we got a little gift for you if you jump on and we also have a uh something that we
01:03:48.880 just did that you can go and view and it'll tell you about the whole program nice the other thing i want
01:03:53.600 to mention with uh mike tyson i was filming with him the past two days i'm not going to tell you what we got
01:03:58.660 in store but it's a big announcement that'll be happening soon however july 22nd right here at
01:04:04.560 the james l knight theater mike myself and probably chas palmitary will be appearing on stage july 22nd
01:04:12.380 tickets go on sale advanced tickets may 24th next week and i want to invite you guys to the event i
01:04:18.420 hope you come it's right here in your backyard and we're very excited everything i'm doing right now
01:04:23.340 guys is really to try to give back you know because i do believe i've been extremely blessed very
01:04:28.540 very fortunate to those who have been given much much is expected in return and we're trying to do
01:04:34.000 our part my whole family you know my wife is extremely supportive of that without her i don't
01:04:38.800 know how i'd even be getting by my daughter is here she's my assistant she works with me and uh and they
01:04:44.200 keep me straight gotta have somebody to keep you straight yeah and i'm very accountable to them
01:04:49.920 and that's it so just very excited um that's awesome quick question for you so um you do a lot of
01:04:55.640 outreach with helping people uh with gambling problems and stuff can you tell us a little bit
01:04:59.180 about that because you do a lot of speaking with well yeah i i was recruited by all the pro leagues
01:05:04.360 major league baseball the nba nfl and uh and then all the universities the ncaa i've spoken at over 300
01:05:11.460 universities throughout my time and all the players in those leagues and it was basically not only about
01:05:17.300 gambling but about relationships that they keep how important it is to have the right relationships be
01:05:22.760 accountable to right people and keep those that are not doing you any good away from you so we talk
01:05:27.600 about that a lot it's been a great program i've been doing it for over 20 years and uh recently now
01:05:33.340 i've been getting a lot more calls from colleges i'm going to a whole bunch uh alabama and a few others
01:05:38.980 because they need a refresher course all the time because gambling is everybody has access to gambling
01:05:44.420 now i told these leagues i said look michael do you believe in legalized gambling i said look i'm not
01:05:50.000 going to say that but i'm going to tell you that the more access these people have the worse it's
01:05:54.440 going to get they have access they don't have to go to a bookmaker now they go online yeah i tell
01:05:58.880 them you jump in your birthday suit get online and you're gambling your life away yeah stop it's no
01:06:03.140 good but uh you know i i hit them right between the eyes with it and i let them know what trouble
01:06:08.120 they're going to have and it's been a very effective program so we're excited about that that's awesome
01:06:13.500 on these last chats here yeah i'll read these last chats because yeah he's got to head out okay um
01:06:17.680 danny erizari michael do you have any nicky scarfo stories also i'm currently writing a screenplay
01:06:22.060 about him and phil do you think their story is movie worthy unfortunately pesci is a bit too old
01:06:25.740 to play scarfo yes you know a lot of people have a lot of things to say about nicky scarfo i happen
01:06:30.980 to like him very much i met him he and i were going to unionize the bartenders and waitresses
01:06:35.700 in atlantic city we had a deal going together and then nicky had trouble and i had trouble we
01:06:41.340 didn't put it together but i got along very well with him yes i think his story is worthy of a movie
01:06:46.040 absolutely i gotta ask you this um john gotti what was it like working with him being in the life with
01:06:51.920 him you know uh he was a tough business guy he didn't really understand business and you know
01:06:56.820 john had a muscle guy i'm not saying anything out of turn he uh he had a big ego you know he's got a
01:07:03.140 great family by the way wonderful wonderful people but he had a big ego so he was very difficult to
01:07:08.340 deal with business wise socially a lot of fun oh yeah you go out with john you're gonna have a lot
01:07:13.780 of fun gonna have a blast so i knew him that way you know and and look i want to dispel this image
01:07:19.640 everybody said john gotti took the mob down john gotti did not take the mob down he was a guy maybe
01:07:25.160 he was a little bit too out there no question about it he brought a little bit extra heat just like
01:07:29.680 joe colombo did in some of those guys but he did not bring the mob down myron unit rico act brought
01:07:35.100 the mob down bail reform act sentencing reform act rico that's what killed our life uh but i like
01:07:42.040 john you know i'll be honest i liked him and look you gotta you gotta at least give him credit he was
01:07:47.340 he stood up for that life and he wasn't going to change period and my dad my dad the same way yeah
01:07:53.660 that was it you know right or wrong he had a principle he stood by it i'm not saying it was good
01:07:59.300 or bad but you got to give him credit for that and there was like a little dispute you guys had
01:08:02.840 about him saying i'm gonna buy you out no i'll buy you out yeah in a flea market that we had yeah
01:08:06.900 i had to strategize when i went in to meet him because i knew he would never go out of there a
01:08:11.480 loser so i had to make him understand oh you won john buy me out you know but first i told him i'm
01:08:16.080 buying you out no you don't buy me out i buy you out okay buy me out speaking of buying work
01:08:21.220 this is my last question for you uh michael so who is the biggest family or i want to say a mob in
01:08:26.800 the world well you mean mafia or in general in general well listen you got to give it to the
01:08:33.280 drug cartels now i mean they practically control the country let's be honest so if you had it if
01:08:38.880 you had to compare the two i would say the mafia in italy and the drug cartels in mexico and south
01:08:44.000 america they're huge i mean they got their own armies in in mexico i mean you got to give them
01:08:49.280 credit because i thought it was them boys uh who them boys fresh i don't know about them but
01:08:55.180 you don't want to miss don't worry about it this guy man uh okay any anything else mo
01:09:00.920 uh okay and i'll read this last one here mike would you consider a podcast or sit down with joey
01:09:05.680 diaz great comedian and a friend of joe rogan would be great to see two old ny guys get together
01:09:10.000 who used to be in that life shout out to fnf ps chris the bum big mo yes sir yes sir but no i like
01:09:15.040 joey diaz yeah i would definitely do a sit down with him and as far as rogan i got a little
01:09:19.100 bone to pick with him he did about a 10 minute deal on me but he never called me to come on the
01:09:23.920 show i don't know if you like smart guys or not but he spoke well about me he really did yeah i got
01:09:27.760 the the clip gotta make that happen man yeah huh you know yeah they gotta no i mean we're gonna get
01:09:32.460 on too yeah yeah you gotta go on there man i mean i i i have a way i may fool him he may see me
01:09:37.860 whether he likes it or not and i don't mean that as a threat joe that's that's a good thing no he
01:09:42.340 your rogan is great i mean i love what he has to say he's very straightforward very honest and i
01:09:47.380 agree with a lot of what he said yeah definitely an inspiration for us as well i mean and you were
01:09:50.820 one of the you al capone uh john gotty you guys were some of the highest earners uh you were ranked
01:09:56.220 what in the top 20 of earners in mafia history right that's well they said i was the biggest
01:09:59.980 since al capone i don't know if that's true or not but that's what they said i mean eight million a
01:10:03.860 week i believe it man we'll take it bro yeah i believe it uh that's one and then last one here
01:10:08.960 dale say i really want to know podcast outstanding show gentlemen brother michael how important is
01:10:12.640 loyalty between men how did you deal with this loyalty then and how should you deal with this
01:10:17.180 loyal man today keep leading from the front go on loyalty is everything unfortunately there was a lot
01:10:22.000 of disloyalty in that life that's what helped destroy it a lot of guys became informants and uh
01:10:27.160 you know it weakened the life terribly loyalty is everything in life you know if you have a commitment
01:10:32.520 you got to do your best to keep it sometimes you slip and fall but you bring it back you know
01:10:37.020 because we still live in the real world uh but very very important and guys that were disloyal in
01:10:43.100 that life they either joined the government and went into witness protection program and survived
01:10:47.360 though they got killed and that's the bottom line got it so mike we'll give you the last word man
01:10:51.540 anything you want to tell the people before we close out no just i enjoyed it you know bring me
01:10:55.940 back again i have an excuse a good excuse to come back to florida which i love i'll be coming down
01:11:00.080 here a lot good good uh but please mob ties you know we look forward look it's our way of giving back
01:11:05.220 it's a great community uh we got a gift for you you're going to get the unwritten rules of the mob
01:11:10.600 and of mob ties something that i think everybody should follow and we have a video there that'll
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01:11:21.360 fact we might get you involved myron because you're into real estate yeah and we want to help people
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01:11:35.220 yeah i'd love you to jump on both of you out of you into real estate too um more into cars
01:11:40.820 cars we can share a lot with yeah um uh that and july 22nd the tickets go on sale may 24th next week
01:11:49.720 advanced sales me mike tyson and chas palmitari how could you get a lineup like that we were all
01:11:54.800 together today it was a lot of fun that's awesome it's going to be a special night right here james
01:11:58.520 l knight theater and uh we're looking forward to it and that's it let's go hey man uh mike it was great
01:12:04.240 having you uh we definitely will do a part two because i know we're tight on time this time but
01:12:07.760 we'll definitely do a part two and have another discussion i think the people really enjoyed it
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