Real OR Fake? Mob Boss Michael Franzese Reacts to Sopranos' Sit Down

sometimes in a negotiation one word could turn the tide it's so important to be prepared to know your opponent to know what's going on you know whenever you sit down in a meeting a negotiation a sit-down you can call it anytime you go into a meeting you know you want to come out on top or you want to at least get what you came in there for and how do you do that you're prepared [Music] so [Music] [Music] hey everyone welcome to another sit down with michael francis hope everybody is doing well all is okay on this end praise god for that and what are we going to do today you know i get asked all the time where did i really hone whatever skills that i have throughout my life and i have to say that you know much of it came through my experience in the mob life no question about it i mean you have to be at the top of your game if you're going to succeed in that life you got to be able to deal with people you got to be able to know strengths and weaknesses you got to be a people person in many many ways in order to succeed in that life and you know i always try to pass my skills on to those of you that that are asking all the time i get so many comments so many requests so many emails so i decided to do something that i think is going to be very helpful and very entertaining for you also i finally got through all of sopranos all six seasons right till the end so i've seen it all i know when i reviewed it in the past i reviewed certain things about it people said michael you never even watched the whole series well i've watched it now and i totally understand why this was such a groundbreaking series why so many series followed you know to try to copy the success of the sopranos in their own way you know with their own stories and i always said you know i think the amazing part of of all of these series that do so well are the interaction of the family because people relate to film no matter what walk of life you're in no matter what you do people relate to family situations and everybody in every walk of life you know that has a family we kind of go through the same things in different ways and so you know sopranos was a tremendous series but what i'm going to do today i'm going to talk about something in my former life that was so helpful to me that i was able to hone some of my skills on in dealing with people in negotiating with people and coming to terms and i'm going to do that by looking at a scene from sopranos talking about it giving you the real scoop on it the real information telling you whether it's realistic or not and then seeing if you can apply it to your own life because this is something that that i did many many times i can't tell you how many sit downs i was in throughout the course of my 20 years on the street in that life and because i had some success i was always sitting down with other people other groups from within my own family or other families and you know it taught me a lot it taught me how to relate to people taught me how to negotiate taught me to how you know to speak when supposed to speak not talk when i'm not supposed to talk taught me to be a good listener a lot of those skills came out of these sit-downs dealing with people so there's a great scene from the sopranos that i'm going to talk about i'm going to give you the ins and outs the you know what's correct about it what's not correct about it i'm going to tell you what you can glean from it and what you should learn from it and what i learned from it so we're going to roll this first one uh really quick and i'll tell you what it's about it's johnny sax you know who he was he was a cup of regime first before he became boss of a family and let's put it this way his wife that he loved he was madly in love with his wife but she was a little bit overweight and comments were made about her and about her being overweight through some of the episodes it was unkind obviously and things are not supposed to do but in this particular case another made guy made a comment an unflattering comment about his wife i hear jenny sax getting a 95 pound mold taken off her ass [Laughter] now you gotta understand some of that life little things sometimes become huge things you be disrespectful to somebody's wife or to somebody's daughter that's a no-no you don't do that god forbid you violate one of them you die for that but you know even being disrespectful in in such a way can be a huge issue an issue that can cause somebody to be hurt and in this particular case johnny sax's wife somebody made a a comment about her it got back to johnny sacks and he's upset okay he wants this guy killed over it about making an unflattering remark to his wife where other people hurt he wants a guy to be killed over it so we have a sit down and that's how things were resolved all the time in this case johnny had to bring his boss okay carmine was the boss of the family at the time and it was tony soprano's guy that made the remark so tony soprano was there but you know in a little bit of a kicker on this corrado jr was still the boss of the family but he couldn't be there because he was on trial he couldn't be around anybody so what they did they tuned him in over the telephone they had corrado in one's place and everybody else was in another place and they had him on a speakerphone somewhere else now let me stop that would never happen i don't care how you know tony says you know the taliban used to use this phone it's totally clean we're going to throw it away afterwards the police will never know nobody's going to know nobody's going to be able to tap into this phone nonsense nobody trusted the phone that much with any brains i would say to have a sit down of a serious nature over the phone like this now did guys make a mistake on the telephone yeah but they were silly they were dumb they should have never done it you know one thing i do remember we thought at the times when cell phones came out that the government couldn't tap a cell phone we were wrong government can easily tap a cell phone as a matter of fact you can get more information off of a cell phone than you can just about from anywhere else as we go through we see carmine who's the boss he's kind of you know talking to corrado corrado's on the other end doesn't look like he's taking this very seriously he's eating his olives having a good time but he's listening so now johnny sacks has to lay out his case and what he says is that somebody allegedly made a remark about his wife and that's a mistake right there what do you mean allegedly he either did it or he didn't do it you know if it's allegedly and you're not sure if he did it well there's no case anymore there's no beef in a real sit down he'd have been thrown out no you either tell us what happened make your case tell us who the person was who made this remark not allegedly and and let's get on with it and if there's an allegedly and he doesn't want to give up the name of the person there's no more sit down so when the word allegedly is jews tony rightfully so says wait a second you got me here to sit down you're saying one of my guys made a mistake like this or said something like this and you don't want to tell us who it is you don't want to give us his name no you don't do that you either tell us who it is or this is over with basically and junior rightfully says to uh johnny sacks were you there and he wasn't there so junior says to him well if you weren't there how do you know it's true johnny sacks comes back and says well i'm not at liberty to tell you how i know it's true and that's when tony stops him and says wait a second like what are we playing a game here did this happen if it happened who said it let's get on with it because if somebody in my crew said something like that i'll bring him here right now and if it's corroborated that he said it i'll hand you him on a silver platter tony outsmarted him 100 percent here to a point where now carmine the boss johnny sacks boss agrees with him because tony is right corrado jr is right bring the guy here if he really said it let's find out and then we'll deal with it the way we're supposed to as friends of ours so now johnny sacks has to reveal who it is his name is ralph he's one of tony's guys tony says fine if ralph said that i'll bring him in here if he corroborates what you're saying i'll give you his head on a silver platter and tony was right corrado and tony right now they're getting the edge on this but carmine says it's immaterial he made a bad remark let's deal with it johnny sacks comes back and says listen this is about my wife what's going on here if this was years ago would we really even have to ask to have her avenged and i don't get that at all i don't care if it was years ago if it was today you have to bring the facts to the table you can't just make allegations that aren't true you got to bring the facts to the table you're calling to avenge somebody meaning you want to kill the guy you don't want to tell everybody what's going on no that doesn't work all right so tony says to him okay let's say for the sake of argument you're right ralph did make this mistake what good is he going to do to kill him and carmine johnny sex boss says nobody's getting killed here right off the bat he's not killing somebody for this and then he's asked he said would you and accept an apology and he says that ship sailed already no apologies so he's being really wanting to avenge his wife to me i'll be honest with you i think this whole thing is ridiculous i really do even if he did make a remark about his wife you know something like that you know you don't cause a sit down over a situation like that so now what happens corrado tony they win over carmine the boss he says hey again nobody's getting killed here because what comes out at the table obviously money always means something in this life and ralph obviously handled a lot of money for the family so carmine turns around to johnny sacks and says hey okay nobody's getting killed name your price and let's get this over with right now so when carmine says that to johnny something that i'm telling you will never happen johnny's a copper regime carmine's a boss johnny looks at him dies out his cigarette gets up and walks off the table total disrespect something that i never seen happen and i don't know how many sit downs i was in you don't walk away from the boss you sit there the boss makes a decision and you abide by it that's it you leave that table everybody shakes hands and that's the way the deal goes you don't walk off the table just for that alone he could have been in a lot of trouble so now corrado he doesn't know that uh johnny sacks got up and left he says hey how about you take a piece of ralph's company i mean could you imagine this because he made a remark who knows what he said you know he made a silly remark about his wife being overweight and money's going to be involved payouts are going to be involved somebody can get killed but you want to know something things like that happen in that life and that's why when you're sitting at that table you better know how you handle yourself and i honed a lot of my skills even over nonsensical things like that i can't tell you how many sit downs i was at when it was just nonsense i mean i think i described once about jerry zimmerman the guy wanted him killed for the same reason because he made a remark about a made guy again same dawn reason you know kill the guy over something like that but guys in that life sometimes are very technical and you got to be careful this is why you know i found out in life you always watch out who you're speaking to you never know weigh your words carefully don't shoot you know off the hip don't just be talking about people don't be passed in judgment about people you never know who you're talking about it's always better to keep your mouth shut you know speak only at the appropriate times and and say only the appropriate things believe me in the long run it helps you out all the way so it's amazing how you can learn this from just watching a scene in the movie you know there are a lot of scenes in a lot of these movies that you know i can really relate to and maybe you can learn something out of them so hopefully that this was all about it and you know on a lighter note i just love the way junior handled himself he knew this wasn't a big deal really in his mind he's sitting there eating olives you see a little bit of his smirk on his face like are you really wasting my time with all of this nonsense but you can see that he's been through the wars he understands that he knows what's going on and you know i get to give the victory right here tony soprano was great you know he put it right out hey i should be the one making a beef against you you're saying one of my guys did something wrong and you don't want to tell me who it is you say it's an allegation but you don't want to prove it no tony was smart in this one he won and carmine the boss he knew you're not killing anybody over this it's a matter of money maybe we can make some money over it you know which always which always came out on top so it was a very interesting scene and uh hopefully you enjoyed it and hopefully you got a little information about it and maybe you learned something you can learn a lot of stuff from things that we did on the street now i want to point out something here i guarantee you tony was very prepared for this sit down and there was really one word that turned the tide on this one word when silvio said it's only been alleged something was said he allegedly said what he said to a group of people friends of ours if you weren't there how do you know it's true allegedly remember that johnny sacks repeated that he said allegedly because what that says is we don't know if he really said it and if he didn't really said it why are you wasting my time here what proof do you have so it was all about being prepared sometimes in a negotiation one word could turn the tide so if you're prepared in your argument i could tell silvio had been through many of these because he knew how important it would be okay to say allegedly you don't even know if this happened you weren't there remember junior picked up on that too he said hey if you weren't there how do you know what really happened so he really lost his argument on that one word that turned the tide it's so important to be prepared to know your opponent to know what's going on you know whenever you sit down in a meeting a negotiation a sit-down you can call it you know obviously they're not all as serious as this might have been but anytime you go into a meeting you know you want to come out on top or you want to at least get what you came in there for and how do you do that you're prepared you know we have a guide it's a negotiation guy we prepare a lot of workshops and a lot of material and we give it to our inner circle they're learning so many things through the workshops that we're providing and so many of the skills that i've picked up on the street we share with you so i want you to click on here you can get your guide on negotiation you can get other content that we put in there you can see what we do in our inner circle click on the link below it's not going to cost you anything to look and see what it's all about but we will continue to prepare information and to give you content that can be of use to you so and we can do it just by showing a clip from the sopranos there's so many things that you can learn and that i can impart my knowledge and wisdom to you and the experience that i've had on the street so click on the link below get our free negotiation guide look at it maybe you know look into the inner circle i think you're going to enjoy it we have hundreds of people in there that are really really really getting benefit by it so let's see if you're going to be the next one so that's it for today i hope you enjoyed it hope you got something from it that's the most important thing and how do i always leave you same way be safe be healthy god bless you hope you enjoy some francis wine and yes i'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Michael Franzese

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 07 2022