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I had Dinner With Michael - Q4 - Stevie from the Bronx 00:13:56
I Invited My Fans to Dinner. No Question Was Off Limits. - YouTube 🍷 Want a seat at my table? Grab the wine bundle here and you’re in: https://franzesewine.com/dinner ✅ Take Control of Your Money and claim $10 in US Stablecoin (USD₮)! Download now at http://wallet.rumble.com/InnerCircle and use the code InnerCircle10. People, I did something special. I sat down for dinner with people who bought my wine — they flew in from Florida, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Phoenix — and we did it the way it’s supposed to be done. Great food, my wine flowing, and one rule: everybody gets a question, and NO question is off limits. And believe me, they didn’t hold back. The gas scheme and whether I could’ve walked before the indictment. How I forgave Rudy Giuliani. Whether I ever felt bad about the money. The moment my faith became real. My marriage, my father, flying with Gotti — all of it, face to face, over dinner. 🍷 Grab the wine bundle here and you’re in: https://franzesewine.com/dinner Seats are limited, people. Salute. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:26 QnA Start 00:01:55 Q1 - What brought Michael to California? 00:04:44 Q2 - Can I Be An Extra In Your Upcoming Movie? 00:07:04 Q3 - What is the secret for a long lasting marriage? 00:11:48 Q4 - Stevie from the Bronx 00:13:56 STORY - Sonny Franzese and his best advice 00:23:58 Q5 - Do you know your Italian heritage? 00:25:31
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Dear MOB TALK SOCIAL CLUB COMMUNITY
After closing down this Mob Talk Social Club Community over a year ago, we decided to come back. We are in the process of building this Mob Talk Social Club community once again. We are presently working on bringing several high-profile former mobsters / made guys as well as several known GANGSTER actors into our community whereby they will commit to doing monthly Zoom meetings. Please be patient while we put this together. The SIXTH FAMILY...... (The Unveiling of the name of the Sixth Family Coming Soon). We hope our Mob Talk Social Club will grow from 152 members to THOUSANDS of New Members in the coming months as we open up the BOOKS.......Coming Soon! We are NOW in discussions to get Michael Franzese, Sammy the Bull & Anthony Ruggiano Jr. to be involved in our MOB TALK SOCIAL CLUB.....We shall keep you updated. - Michael Franzese - Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano - Anthony Ruggiano Jr. - Other possible Guests - Frankie DiMatteo - Mob Candy Magazine - Gene Borrello - Dom Cicale Mafia MafiaRoundtable - The Sitdown with Jeff Nadu - The Skinny with Joey Merlino & LIL Snuff - Sitdownnews: John Pennisi - Mikey Scars DiLeonardo - Tommy Karate Pitera Speaks - Goodfellas' cast members - Soprano's cast members - Bronx Tale cast members EVENTS: Cigar & Wine Night, Italian Cooking Night, Leaderboard Q&A with Special Guests as well as prizes, Boxing Night where you can speak to your favorite Old G Boxers, Vito Antuofermo, Iran Barkley, Jr. Jones, Michael Nunn, James Tomey just to name a few. Real Life Goodfella Recreates the Goodfellas Prison Dinner (And the Stories That Come With It) Here is the Breakdown on what we will be doing once we get the Mobcasters committed to appear as special guests in our Mob Talk Social Club community. General Membership: $10.00 per month – 50% Commission for referring your friends into our Mob Talk Social Club community. Premium $20.00 per month – Benefits Can participate in Monthly ZOOM Calls with Special Guests if they make the 30-day LEADERBOARD or Leaderboard (all-time) - 50% Commission for referring your friends into our Mob Talk Social Club community.
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MOB TALK: New York’s Mafia Social Club Hangouts — Then vs Now
New York’s Deadliest Mafia Hangouts — Then vs Now 34,718 views Aug 8, 2026 #MafiaClubs #MafiaThenAndNow #NewYorkMafia The Mafia once ran parts of New York from these buildings. Today, you could walk past them without knowing what happened inside. For decades, Mafia social clubs were the nerve centers of organized crime in New York City. They looked ordinary from the street—a small storefront, neighborhood club, café, or private room—but behind those doors, some of America's most powerful gangsters met with their crews. John Gotti had the Ravenite. Vincent "The Chin" Gigante had the Triangle. Roy DeMeo had the Gemini Lounge. From Manhattan's Little Italy to Brooklyn and Queens, these clubs became places where mobsters gambled, collected money, discussed disputes, met associates, conducted business, and sometimes planned violence. But the Mafia world that created them is disappearing. The bosses died. The crews went to prison. Neighborhoods changed. Buildings were renovated. Businesses moved in. And some of New York's most infamous Mafia locations became completely ordinary places. In this documentary, we're going back to nine former Mafia clubs across New York City to see what they looked like during the mob's golden era—and what stands at those addresses today. Some transformations are almost impossible to believe. Places once surrounded by FBI surveillance are now surrounded by tourists. Storefronts where made men once gathered have become restaurants, apartments, shops, churches, and modern businesses. The addresses survived. THE RAVENITE SOCIAL CLUB Few Mafia headquarters became more famous than the Ravenite on Mulberry Street. During the John Gotti era, the club became synonymous with the Gambino crime family. Gotti regularly appeared outside surrounded by captains, soldiers, associates, reporters, photographers, and FBI surveillance teams. The Ravenite became a symbol of Gotti's confidence. It also became an intelligence gold mine for law enforcement. THE TRIANGLE Vincent "The Chin" Gigante operated differently. The Genovese boss avoided Gotti's celebrity lifestyle and cultivated an image of mental illness while maintaining enormous influence in the underworld. The Triangle Civic Improvement Association in Greenwich Village became closely associated with Gigante and his crew. To ordinary New Yorkers, it looked like another neighborhood club. To the FBI, it was something very different. THE GEMINI LOUNGE Then there was Roy DeMeo. The Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn became infamous because of the DeMeo Crew, one of the most violent groups associated with the Gambino crime family. Behind an ordinary neighborhood exterior existed an underworld that would later become legendary in Mafia history. Today, the transformation of locations like the Gemini demonstrates just how completely New York has changed. Why Mafia social clubs mattered: Before encrypted phones and digital communication, organized crime depended heavily on face-to-face meetings. Social clubs gave mobsters somewhere to gather without conducting every conversation over telephones they believed could be tapped. They also demonstrated territorial control. If you knew who occupied a particular club, you knew whose neighborhood you were entering. But those same locations eventually became vulnerabilities. FBI surveillance cameras appeared. Agents photographed visitors. License plates were recorded. Informants entered the clubs. Listening devices captured conversations. And the places designed to protect Mafia secrecy helped investigators understand the organizations operating inside them. Why this story matters today: New York remembers its Mafia history through movies, documentaries, photographs, and courtroom stories. But the physical history is still around us. The buildings remain. You can stand where John Gotti once held court. Walk past locations where FBI agents watched Mafia captains arrive. Visit neighborhoods once dominated by crews whose names terrified New York. Yet without knowing the history, you'd never notice anything unusual. That's what makes these locations fascinating. Yesterday, they were Mafia territory. Today, they're just another part of New York City. The Mob disappeared. The addresses survived.
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MOB TALK: When Francesco “Frank” Cali became boss of the Gambino crime family in 2015, he was only 49
When Francesco “Frank” Cali became boss of the Gambino crime family in 2015, he was only 49—and had spent decades learning how to survive while other Mafia leaders disappeared into federal prisons. His strategy was remarkably simple: stay quiet, rely on trusted intermediaries, and avoid getting his own hands dirty. Born in New York City in 1965 to Sicilian immigrants, Cali maintained unusually strong connections to Sicily. He married Rosaria Inzerillo, from a reputed Mafia family in Palermo, and reportedly developed relationships with Sicilian organized-crime figures. In New York, he also became close to Gambino lieutenant Jackie D’Amico. Those connections helped Cali rise rapidly. Not everyone welcomed it. According to the article, Gambino soldier Joey Orlando once dismissed the rising gangster as a “30-year-old, snot-nosed kid.” But Cali kept advancing. After John Gotti received a life sentence in 1992, the Gambino family entered an era of intense law-enforcement pressure. D’Amico eventually became a de facto leader and elevated his trusted protégé to acting capo, giving Cali influence over lucrative Gambino rackets. Cali reportedly preferred using Sicilian associates for sensitive operations, viewing them as more disciplined and less likely to cooperate with authorities. His low-profile approach proved remarkably effective. Despite decades around organized crime, his only conviction mentioned in the article came in 2008 for extortion, resulting in less than two years behind bars. By 2015, Cali had reached the top. As boss, he reportedly insulated himself further, communicating through intermediaries rather than dealing directly with subordinates. While that strategy helped distance him from law enforcement, it could not protect him from what happened outside his Staten Island home. On March 13, 2019, Cali was shot six times in Todt Hill and died shortly afterward. His brief reign ended violently, echoing another Gambino boss: Paul Castellano, assassinated outside Manhattan’s Sparks Steak House in 1985. Cali had built his career by avoiding the flamboyance that helped destroy earlier Mafia leaders, yet his quieter approach ultimately could not shield him from a very old danger of underworld power.
MOB TALK: When Francesco “Frank” Cali became boss of the Gambino crime family in 2015, he was only 49
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