I Waited 50 Years to Tell You What Happened on Halloween 1975

➡ Foreign Ze, a high-ranking member of the Colombo Mafia family, recalls his initiation into the mafia on Halloween night, 1975. He took a blood oath, symbolized by burning a saint’s picture in his hands, and was warned of the consequences of betrayal. Despite leaving the mafia, he still takes the oath seriously. He joined the mafia to help his father, who was serving a 50-year prison sentence, and reflects on the damage the mafia lifestyle causes to families.
➡ A man recalls his initiation into the Colombo family 50 years ago, a significant mafia group. He shares his journey from being asked by his father if he could kill someone, to being proposed into the family, and his three-year pledge period where he had to prove himself. He admits to living in violation of both God’s laws and the laws of man during this time, participating in illegal and violent activities. He also mentions the launch of their fruit wines, which are popular and selling fast.
➡ A man recounts his journey into a criminal lifestyle, initiated by his father’s influence and respect within the family. Despite his discomfort with some of the tasks, he felt bound by an oath to obey orders. He saw this life as a brotherhood, where loyalty was paramount, and breaking rules could cost lives. However, he acknowledges the distorted view of honor in this life, and the regret that comes with doing bad things, despite having a good heart.
➡ The narrator, a high-ranking member of a criminal organization, suspects he’s being set up by his superiors due to his success and the jealousy it’s causing. Despite his father’s reassurances, he’s uneasy about a meeting they’ve been summoned to, especially when they’re told to arrive separately. His fears intensify when he’s driven to the meeting by a silent associate and an unknown man. As he walks to the meeting location, he’s overwhelmed by fear and a sense of impending doom, but feels compelled to continue.
➡ The narrator recounts a tense meeting where he was questioned about his financial dealings in the gas business. He felt betrayed by his lifelong friend, Jimmy, who knew about the meeting but didn’t warn him. He also felt let down by his father, who didn’t defend him during the meeting. The narrator reflects on the destructive impact of his life in organized crime on his family, which ultimately led him to leave that life behind.
➡ The text is about a man who was deeply involved in criminal activities and faced severe consequences, including prison time and threats to his life. He fell in love with a woman and decided to leave his criminal life for her. However, he faced more challenges, including more prison time and financial loss. During a particularly low point in prison, he found solace in religion, which helped him face his past and gave him hope for the future.
➡ The speaker, a former mobster, reflects on his past life of crime and how he found redemption through his Christian faith. He emphasizes that sincere confession of sins and acceptance of Jesus Christ leads to forgiveness. Despite his past, he believes he is forgiven and will enter heaven, as he has seen God’s transformative power in his own life and others’. He expresses gratitude for his life, family, and the opportunity to share his story, while acknowledging that he still faces challenges.
➡ The speaker addresses rumors about him on social media, stating that he won’t lie or make up stories about others. He emphasizes the importance of honesty and accountability in life. He also encourages everyone to enjoy Halloween safely with their families, reminding them to be cautious. Lastly, he promotes his new wine brand, Franz East Wine, assuring its high quality and great taste.

Foreign Ze is now a high ranking member of an organized crime family, the Colombo Mafia family, and was recently charged with racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and the investment of mafia money in legitimate business. Every day you’re waiting for a call. Could it be tonight, could it be today? The you don’t know. Dress up in a suit, Be prepared. You don’t know because they don’t tell you in advance. Because that’s a night you need to be very secure. You don’t want the FBI or anybody else or any law enforcement knowing what’s going on that night. So you don’t know until the last minute.

Then I get the call on Halloween from Andrew. Wasn’t that in the ordinary? Hey, I need you downtown. Wear a suit, be here in the afternoon. Okay? Nothing out of the ordinary, but every day you’re anticipating it just happened to be. That was the night. Halloween night, 1975, 50 years ago today. Hey everyone. Welcome to another sit down with Michael Francis. Hope everybody is doing well. All is very good, very blessed on this end, my friends. And as always, I give all the praise, honor, glory and thanksgiving to our God for that and especially today. Why is that? Well, today is Halloween and it’s a day that has significance to many people.

It’s a day of trick or treating and kids go out and dress up in costumes and some adults do that too. My whole family enjoys doing that. But it’s a different day for me. It’s a day that has tremendous significance because it was a major turning point in my life. It was Halloween night at about 11pm That I stood in front of my former boss, Tom DiBella, and took a blood oath. The blood oath of Omerta. It was a night that my finger was pricked and some blood fell on the floor. I cupped my hands. They took a picture of a saint, it was a Catholic altar card.

Put it on my hands and lit it aflame. It didn’t hurt, it burnt quickly. It was merely symbolic. And it was a night that Tom DiBella looked at me and said, tonight, Michael Francis, you are born again into a new life, into Cosa Nostra. Violate what you know about this life, betray your brothers and you will die and burn in hell like the saint is burning in your hands. And it was an oath I took very seriously back then. I take it very seriously today, even though I don’t consider myself a member of that life anymore.

But today there’s even more significance because Today was the 50th anniversary of the day, the night that I Took that oath was Halloween night, 1975, when I walked into that room. And people, there’s a lot of significance to that because when I look back in my life and I. I realize really how fortunate I am, how blessed I am today to be here sitting in front of you and talking to you. There’s major significance in that because just about everybody I knew, every maid guy, especially during that time, is either dead or imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

And that’s no. That’s no insignificant matter, I can tell you that. And tonight I want to talk to you a little bit about, you know, what got me into that life. I know some of you have heard the story, but it’s a little bit different today, I promise you that. Because I guess there’s some soul searching involved in this with me, because I understand what I was involved in. You know, I’ve talked about this life quite a bit, people, and I don’t glorify it. I know sometimes people think that I do. I don’t glorify it. I left the life.

I saw a lot of damage in that life. I caused a lot of damage in that life. So it’s nothing to be glorified. Do I talk about it? Yes. Dude, I have friends in that life. Yes. Did I see a lot of bad things go down? Yes. Was I involved in a lot of bad things? Yes. And today, for some reason, I think I owe it to my viewers. I want to open up about some things that I haven’t really talked about before. So, you know, people, I never wanted to be part of this life. I didn’t aspire to be part of this life.

You know, I got into the life because of my dad, because my dad was in trouble. He was given a 50 year prison sentence and there really was no way out for him, you know, losing all his appeals. My dad was framed. I’ll take that to the bank. He was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Even though my dad had done some bad things. We all know that in the past, real mob guys. But I got into the life to help him. That was it. I didn’t aspire my whole life to be a mob guy.

Even though I grew up in it. I knew all about it. I watched my father go through a lot of trouble. I seen him go through two trials. I seen him in prison, I visited him in jail. I seen on trial for murder. I was in the courtroom when they took a wheelbarrow and they had cement blocks in there with chains for a body that my Father allegedly ordered to be killed. That washed up, you know, in a. On the sand in Queens. I seen it all, you know, I went through it all, so I wasn’t a stranger to it.

Did it scare me? Honestly, no. My father was a part of it. I loved my dad, so it didn’t scare me. I hated law enforcement back then. I hated them because I saw them as harassing my dad. So my reason for getting involved in that life was because I love my dad and I wanted to get my dad out of the life. I wasn’t born, in my view, to be a mobster. Some people were. You talk to her, you see other people on YouTube, they tell you all the stories. Some of them talk about. They talk about it with pride.

Hey, I was a part of this. I try not to do that. Hopefully I don’t come across that way because I don’t mean to. Even though I talk about some good times that we’ve had, obviously I have a lot of knowledge and experience about it. I do. Just part of it. But you know, quite honestly, when I look back, it’s an evil lifestyle. The mob life, the gang life, Cosa Nostra, Mafia gangs, they’re evil lifestyles. And the reason I say that is because of the damage it does to the families of members of that life. I’m going to get into that a little bit further, but let me, let me go back to that fateful day when I sat with my father in Leavenworth Penitentiary.

We were in the visiting room. It was shortly after Joe Colombo was assassinated at an Italian American civil rights rally. I was very close to Joey. He was kind of my mentor when my dad went away. He helped me out, you know, a couple of times when I got in trouble and Joey had gotten shot. He didn’t die on the spot. He lingered for about six or seven years, mostly in a coma, in and out of it, and then passed away. And I was only 12, 13 steps away from him when that happened. And it was an eye opening experience.

It was the second time in my life that somebody from that life that was close to me had been murdered. And it was tough, tough experience. Michael, why didn’t that just blow your mind? Why didn’t that make you want to stay out of that life again? Was all about helping my dad. So I go to see him in Leavenworth and I didn’t understand, dad, what happened? Why did they kill Joe Colombo? I wasn’t really into all of it at that time. And he tried, tried to explain it to me. He said, I don’t want you hanging out in that element.

I want you away from the guys, go to school. You’re going to be a doctor. This is what I want you to do. But at that point in time, after walking that picket line, you know, we were picketing the FBI because they were Italian. They were harassing Italian Americans. Meeting a lot of my dad’s friends, speaking to Joe Colombo, hating the government even more. I said, dad, I’m not going to school anymore. You’re gonna die in here. You’re 50 years old. You got a 50 year sentence. If I don’t help you out, you’re gonna die in here.

Well, he was upset and he argued back and forth with me, you know, but he knew my mind was made up. I was a pretty headstrong kid. And I’ll never forget. He said, okay, son, but if you’re gonna be on the street, you’re my son. I need you to be on the street the right way. And he looked at me and I don’t know if I’ve ever talked about this on YouTube, but he looked at me and he said to me, I gotta ask you a very serious question, and I want you to be honest with me.

Gotta be honest. Either way, whatever the answer is, you gotta be honest. Hey, everyone. Yeah. It was 50 years ago today, Halloween night, that I took an oath and became a made man in the Colombo family. It seems like a lifetime ago, but, you know, today is a special day because we’re launching our fruit wines, all four of them. Our cherry, our pomegranate, our BlackBerry, and our strawberry great wines. And you can get them now for the holidays. People are really loving them. They’re really enjoying them. So you can start with Halloween, go right through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So click on the link below and put your order in now. I know they’re going to go fast. They’re flying off the shelves. But we’re excited to be able to offer it to all of our customers now. So thank you for tuning in, and let’s get back to the Halloween video. And I said, dad, ask me the question. I’m not going to lie to you. And he looked at me and he said, son, if you ever had to kill somebody, could you do it? I thought about it a minute. I didn’t just fire off an answer.

I wasn’t trying to impress my dad. I really thought about it and I said, you know, dad, under the right circumstances, yes, I could do it. And he looked at me and he said, son, that’s the right answer. I want you to go home. I want you to wait for somebody to be in touch with you. I’m going to send word downtown. And he said, I’m now proposing you into my lifestyle. And that was it. He didn’t run it down for me. He didn’t say, this is what’s expected of you, you know, that is a secret life.

You know, a lot of people think when you take that oath, you take an oath to lie, steal, murder, kill. No, that’s not the oath. Do things like that happen as a result of that life? Yes, of course, but that’s not the oath. The oath is the oath of silence. Omerta. That’s what it means. And if my dad was anything, he was a good soldier. He wasn’t going to violate that oath, even with me. He knew I had it in me. He liked my answer. Go home and do what you’re told. That’s all he said. And I didn’t question him.

You know, I love my dad so much. I figured, hey, he’s not going to do anything to hurt me. He’s going to tell me the right thing to do. I said, okay, dad. Whatever you want, that’s what I’ll do. This is how this life started for me again. I didn’t grow up wanting to be a wise guy, even though I was around it all the time. Other people, yes. Sammy Gravano tell you that he. He idolized the guys on the street. He grew up in Brooklyn. That’s how I grew up. In Brooklyn also, but different. I don’t know why.

You know, maybe because I hated the government so much. I don’t know why. I can’t explain it, but that’s not what I was into. But, yeah, dad, this is what you want. I’m ready. Whatever I got to do to help you out. Two weeks later, a captain in a family picked me up, took me to see the boss. At that time, after Joe Colombo was shot, Persico took over, basically. But he was in jail, and Tom dibella was the acting boss. Tom’s a good old guy. Long time in that life. He was a longshore man, but a long time in that life.

And Andrew Russo took me to see Tom, and he sat with me and he said, mike, I got a message from your father. He said, you want to become a member of our life? Is that true? And I said, yes, if that’s what my dad wants, that’s what I want. And he looked at me, and he got real serious. He said, I didn’t ask you what Your father wanted. I asked you if that’s what you want. And I said, yes, Tom, that’s what I want. He said, okay. He said, here’s the deal. Listen up. Pay attention.

I said, okay. He said, from now on, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you’re on call to serve this family, the Colombo family. That means if your mother is sick and she’s dying and we call you to service, you leave your mother’s side and you come and serve us. Because from now on, we’re number one in your life before anything and everything. When and if we feel you deserve this privilege, this honor to become a member, we’ll let you know. You understand? I said, yes. That’s it. Now I’m proposed. I’m official. I’m a recruit.

I gotta earn it. Andrew Russo turned to me that same day. I loved Andrew. Passed on now. Thomas passed on now, loved Andrew. He looked at me and he said, you be here tomorrow morning. Wear a suit. That’s how it started for me. I was 21 years old. And for the next three years, I was in kind of like a pledge period where I had to do anything and everything I was told to do to prove myself worthy. Now, you people that know me, you know, I don’t talk about certain things. People, let me tell you something.

I don’t have immunity. I didn’t go into witness protection program. I did not cooperate with the government to that degree. Did I talk to the government? Yes, we know that. But I didn’t cooperate to the degree where they were willing to, you know, put me in a witness protection program because I was not about to put people in prison. Bottom line, not going to get into that. We’ve spoken about that before. That was it. So for the next three years, I was on call. Did I have to prove myself worthy? Yeah. Am I going to talk about everything that I had to do during that time? No, I can’t.

Other people can. I can’t. It’s been a long time. 50 years. And going back while I was recruit, we’re talking about 54 years, when I was making my bones, so to speak. And people, look, you know, I want to be as honest as I possibly can with you because it’s just how I am. I try not to tell you anything. If I don’t know it to be a fact, if I’m telling you I’m assuming something, then I’m going to tell you I’m assuming this. I don’t know for a fact, but if I know for something, For a fact, I.

I’m going to tell you. And look, for the next three years, every day of my life, I lived in violation of both God’s laws and the laws of man. I mean, look, you start to get that criminal mind fairly quick because you’re around other criminals, you’re around other people. Did they regard the law? Did they respect the law? No, they didn’t. Because we thought that the law was corrupt. I grew up believing the law was more corrupt than guys on the street because I saw them frame my father. I saw them harass my family. So that’s the mentality I grew up with.

It was a distorted sense of view, but that’s who I was. It was innate in me. That’s who I was. So when I was asked to do something that was illegal, I didn’t have a problem with it. I really didn’t. And people, look, I’m going to tell you this, and please understand what I’m saying. That’s a violent life at times. You all know that. And if you’re part of that life, you’re part of the violence. And there’s no excuse, there’s no escape, I should say, no escape. You’re told to do something, you have to do it.

You got to prove your value to those people. You got to prove your worth. You got to make them think that, hey, you know, this guy is capable of doing this. And now that he is doing this, well, he’s put himself out there, he’s committed this act, he’s put himself out there now, so he’s got stuff to lose. Crazy way of thinking, but that’s how it is. So I go through two and a half years, and, you know, it was at that time that they were opening the books. There was an expression across all five families in New York, the books were closed, meaning they weren’t bringing any new guys into the family.

Allegedly. Security reasons. The only time they were able to bring a new guy in is if somebody in the family, one of the families died and they replaced him. Otherwise, no. But in the mid-70s, they opened the books, opened them up, bringing guys in. They wanted to build up the ranks again. So I fell into that. During that time, there were guys waiting 20 years, ever since the 50s, to become, you know, a made guy. They were waiting that long, A lot of the older guys, waiting that long. But when the books opened, that was my time.

Now, did they move me up? They sure did. Out of respect for my father, because he asked for that. He said, I need somebody. I need Some help. I need my son. And they respected that because my father had a lot of respect. My father was a good soldier. He was. He was. He was very loyal to the family, and they knew that. So. Yeah, but I still had to prove myself. They weren’t going to do that much of a favor for him. If they thought I wasn’t worthy, they would have said, hey, your son is not going to cut it.

I had to prove myself. And throughout that two and a half years, a lot of stuff went down, let me put it that way. And, yeah, I did develop this criminal mind, there’s no question. And I thought it was okay. And then comes that night. Every day you’re waiting for a call. Could it be tonight, could it be today? You don’t know. Dress up in a suit, Be prepared. You don’t know because they don’t tell you in advance because that’s a night you need to be very secure. You don’t want the FBI or anybody else or any law enforcement knowing what’s going on that night.

We don’t want that. So you don’t know until the last minute. Then I get the call on Halloween from Andrew. Wasn’t out in the ordinary. Hey, I need you downtown. Wear a suit, be here in the afternoon. Okay. Nothing out of the ordinary, but every day you’re anticipating, it just happened to be. That was the night. Halloween night, 1975. 50 years ago today. Well, we go to Anthony Colombo’s catering home, the Eldoro was called. And that’s where this took place. There were six of us that night. I’m not going to mention the other names. And we went into a room individually.

And I’ll never forget the. The boss was seated at the head of, like a horseshoe configuration. That was Tom dibella. The underboss in the consularia were to his left and right. And all the copper regimes we had, about 15 in our family at that point, were alongside of them. And I walked down the aisle. Was a very solemn ceremony. Dimly lit room. They wanted you to understand the seriousness of what you were getting involved in because it was serious. And I walked through the boss and held out my hand, had a knife and a pin. Cut my finger, drew some blood, fell on the floor.

Standing in front of Tom, he told me to cup my hands. I did. Took a picture of a saint, Catholic old God, put it in my hands and lit it aflame. Burned quickly. Like I said, it was merely symbolic. And he uttered those words to me tonight. Michael Francis, you are born again. Every Christian out there knows the significance of being born again. That night, I was born again. But I was born into a criminal lifestyle where every day of my life, I lived in violation of both God’s laws and the laws of man. Took the oath.

Tom kissed me on both cheeks. Andrew did the same. And I was exhilarated. Finally, I’m part of something that my dad is part of. Not only am I his son, but I’m bound by blood with my father. Now. I was totally exhilarated. Quite honestly, it was amazing. We went into a room, all of us, after we all took the oath, we had a banquet. And I’ll never forget, we were sitting there, and little Jojo Vitaco, who was a friend of my dad, was. Is so proud of having me be made that night that he asked to be there, and Tom and Andrew allowed him to be there because normally the soldiers don’t attend.

I want to keep this secure. And I’ll never forget Tom. I’m sorry. Jojo comes in with a brown paper bag, and he goes over to Tom De Bella, the boss, and he says, hey, boss, should I give them all their bag of money right now? And it was sarcastic because everybody thinks you come into that life, and all of a sudden they’re handing you money. No, not that way. The other way around. You’re making money for the family. And Tom made that very clear that night. You gotta prove your value in that regard. I had already shown that side of me during my recruit time.

So I think they knew that where I was destined, I was gonna be an earner for the family. So here I am, people. I’m a soldier. And I was motivated that night to do two things. I wanted to get my dad out of prison. I did get him out on parole after 10 years. My dad did 40 years in prison. He kept violating and going back. You know, the story came out at the age of 100 in 2017, the oldest inmate in the federal system. And then he passed away in 2020 during COVID I believe he died of COVID Early on, very early on, before they even knew what Covid was.

So now here I am. I’m a soldier in the family. And people. Look, I can tell you this. There were a lot of things that I did during my time in that life that I was very uncomfortable doing. I was very uncomfortable. But I took an oath. I said I was going to obey the rules. I was going to obey the orders that were given, handed down to me. And even though I was uncomfortable, I did them anyway. I did. It was almost like you step outside of yourself. I’m not comfortable with this. But I got an order, I gotta fulfill it.

I took an oath. Now, is that wrong? Of course it’s wrong. There’s no justification for committing sins. There’s no justification for doing things that are wrong. Just to say, well, I took an oath. What was the wrong oath? Wasn’t it? But I took it now, had an idealistic view of that life. I felt good. I felt it was honorable. I was part of a brotherhood. I got your back, you got mine. This was important. It meant something to me. It really did. Well, I said, okay, I’m doing the honorable thing. I’m following an order. And it was justified what I was told to do.

People, look, you don’t go around in that life killing random people regardless what anybody says. And you know the deal. There are the Roy Demeos, there are the Greg Scarpers, there are the. These Simons, the. The different people, a different breed. But that’s not. We do what we do. Ordinarily, yes, there were guys like that, but not all of us, and I think the greater part of us were not like that. We had to do something. We were told to do something. Okay, how do you justify it? Well, listen, we were told straight out, if we break the rules, we can pay for it with our lives.

And we were told straight out, if your best friend breaks the rule and he’s got to pay for it with his life, you might be the one called upon to do it. We accept it. Part of the oath. Play by the rules, don’t break them, and you’ll stay out of trouble. Now, is that true all the time? No. Guys were put in a bad situation for whatever reason, maybe jealousy, maybe money, maybe a, you know, a power struggle. Who knows? So did guys die when they shouldn’t have died? Yeah, I could say that. Absolutely. There were guys that I know that I felt really bad about.

I didn’t think it was justified. The life, people. That’s the life. Was everybody bad in that life? No, no, I won’t say that. I’ve said this before. Why do good people do bad things? Because they felt they were doing the right thing at that time, even though it was a bad thing. Sometimes your. Your mind can be screwed up. We took an oath. We thought it was honorable at times to do the wrong thing. Is it wrong? Yeah, it’s a distorted view, a distorted way of thinking. I said that early on, but that’s the view that we held and that was it.

But remember, not all people that do Bad things are bad people. Some people have good hearts and still do bad things and regret it afterwards. But there’s some people that just have a cold heart. I’ve seen evil. Trust me when I say that I’ve seen evil. I saw a lot of death in that life. A lot of death. And it’s ugly and it’s horrible. A lot of people that I knew were gone, and it was tough. It was really tough. So here I am. I’m making a lot of money. I don’t have to get into all that.

1980, the boss, Carmine Persigo. At that time, I was an acting captain for my father. Had to be. My father was on parole, kept getting violated. He made me his acting captain. I acted in his behalf. Whenever I had a sit down or something that involved him, of course he would counsel me. Of course I would talk about it with him. That was respect. And I was an acting captain for him for quite some time. And then I become an official captain in 1980. Now, let me tell you this. I didn’t need to be made an official captain.

I was fine dealing as my father’s acting captain, had the same authority, basically. But I know why I was made a captain. Because Persicle wanted to separate me from my father. Because he broke my father. What do I mean by that? He took his captaincy away. And he took it away under the excuse that, sonny, you keep getting violated and I want to protect you, so I’m going to take your captaincy away. It was fraudulent because I was acting for my father. He didn’t put himself in that position, even though he kept getting violated for silly reasons, always for an association.

That’s how it was. I was upset when that happened. I said, dad, this is very disrespectful. You were the underboss at one time. You got a 50 year sentence, never opened your mouth. You did a lot for this family. How could they do that to you? My dad said, bide your time, son. Don’t worry about it. Things work out in the end. This life is like a wheel. Who’s on top one day, could be on the bottom the other day. We’ll have our time. That’s what my father used to tell me. We’ll have our time. Okay.

All right, dad, you say so. I listen to my dad. He was wise, making a lot of money. I’m a captain now. I got a couple of men assigned to me. I got my own crew that I developed during that time. People said to me, michael, do you have a. Did you have a conscience during that time? Well, of course I did. Like I said, I knew I was doing wrong. There were some things that made me very uncomfortable, but I did them anyway. I was a knowing and willing sinner because I knew they were wrong.

I tried to justify him in my mind and say, well, I took the oath and the guy next to me took the oath too. And it’s okay and. But there’s no justification for that. We just try to make ourselves feel better. Sin is sin. Doing wrong is doing wrong. Evil is evil. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. I’ve learned that now. I’ve come to my senses over the years. I understand it. So now here’s what happens. Making a lot of money in that life, you gotta watch not only the government. Remember, I was a major target of law enforcement.

My father’s name came on to me immediately. I’ve seven indictments, seven more than most guys on the street. Seven indictments. They started with me from the time they recognized me as a 19 year old kid. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Constant investigations, constant people on me. Seven indictments, five trials. They never able to convict me in a. In a trial was either not guilty or dismissed. They never left me alone in that regard. Major target of law enforcement. Just like my dad. My dad would get upset with me. You have more indictments than I do at half my age.

How’d you do that? Yeah, what do you want from me? My name is Francis. What could I say? You know, listen, when you’re doing something good in that life, at least in law, well, maybe I should say bad. But when you’re succeeding in that life, law enforcement’s coming at you. If you’re not succeeding, they don’t bother with you. So I’m making my mark, right? And along the way, things happen. Things happen. Well, one night my dad’s out on parole, calls me up, son, I gotta see you. I say, okay, Dad. I go to his house in Long Island.

We’re in the driveway at his house. He says, hey, son, Junior wants to see us tonight. Persigo. I said, okay, dad. What time do you want me to pick you up? He said, no, they want to do this differently. I said, what do you mean? He said, they want me to come in first. They want you to come in second. I said, why? Why are they separating us? I said, dad, there’s been some talk on the street. You know, I’m in this gas business. Some guys were going to talk to my Russian friends wanting to know how much money we’re making.

I said, why is that happening? Don’t worry about it. You know, we got an order. We gotta go. I said, no. I don’t like it, Dad. I don’t like it. Why are they separating us? I said, that’s not right. Shouldn’t separate father and son. No way. Son, we got an order. We gotta go. I said, dad, I don’t like this. I don’t like it. As in, why do you have to go in first? I said, I don’t like it. People, you got to be alert in that life. You. You could be making enemies when you don’t know it.

There’s a lot of jealousy, a lot of envy in that life. And I’m not putting myself up there as somebody special. I’m just telling you like it is. I was mad. I didn’t want to go. We were. We were. You know, look, I always considered my dad my superior. He was a smart guy. He spent a lot of time in his life. He knew it well, and he taught me well, I will say that. But tonight I was disagreeing with him. I said, I don’t want to do that, dad. We went at it back and forth, back and forth, till finally, you know what? I threw up my hands.

I said, you know what, dad? I’ve been listening to you my whole life. I don’t want to do this this way, but I’m gonna listen to you again. Okay, Mom. I leave. He had somebody driving him in, I assume. I get a call from Jimmy Angelina, another captain in the family. He says, hey, meet me on such and such a place. And we got. We got this meeting tonight. It’s okay. I drive into Brooklyn, I meet Jimmy, and I get in a passenger seat in the front. Some guy sitting in the back. I recognize him slightly, didn’t know him.

Wasn’t a made guy. And this was a covert meeting, obviously. Junior on parole forever. So we had to make sure that we weren’t followed going to the meeting place. And the meeting place was a house in Brooklyn in somebody’s basement. One of our guys. So we’re driving around and I’m waiting for Jimmy to give me some insight what’s happening at this meeting tonight. He doesn’t really talk to me. He talks to me about the Yankees. I’m a die hard Yankee fan. I don’t want to hear about the Yankees at night. I’m wondering, what’s this guy sitting in the back seat? Now, people, let me tell you something.

One of the horrors of that life, and it is a horror of that Life, you make a mistake, your best friend walks you into that room, you don’t walk out again. You don’t know. Sometimes you don’t know. Now, obviously, during my time in that life, I know about those situations and I’m getting a little bit suspicious here. This guy’s not talking to me, not telling me, hey, here’s what’s going on. Not saying a word. I got a guy sitting in the back seat. What’s he doing there? Okay, after about 15, 20 minutes, driving around, we get to this house in Brooklyn.

We park, we get out of the car. It was night time by now. We get out of the car and it was 30, 40 yard walk from the car down to the basement apartment where we had to go. So slammed the door, shut the door. I hear Jimmy shutting the door. And then the guy in the back, his door is shutting and I’m saying, what is this guy doing? Not one of us. Not a made guy. Why is he coming into this meeting? This is a high end meeting. Why is he coming? Why is he following me? Now I’m getting.

I’m getting nervous. I know the setup, people. I’m walking down there, you know, people have said to me, michael, were you scared? Hell, I was. Yeah, I was scared. I’m saying, this is not right. This setup is no good. You know, when I talk about these people, I’m not kidding, and I’m not trying to be dramatic or exaggerating, but you know, when you think you’re going to meet your maker and that comes into your head, you. You get nervous, you get scared. Believe me, it was. I started praying. I wasn’t a prayerful guy. I grew up a Catholic, but I wasn’t into my religion at that point.

When I talk about this, I can. I can smell the fragrance of the flowers. It was an August night. I can almost see those little fireflies, you know, darting around there. We had them in New York, Brooklyn. I’m saying, man, this is bad. Something is wrong here. I don’t like this setup. And I’m telling you, my knees were getting a little weak. My heart started to thump pretty loud. And people said to Mike, why didn’t you just cut and run? Why don’t you just get out of there? You know, it wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t saying, hey, I’m a tough guy.

No, it was robotic. After being in that life and getting it, I said, hey, you know what? I guess this is it. Or if this is. Was robotic, I mean it. I can’t describe it any other way. And I’m walking down those steps, and they’re following me. They’re behind me. I’m walking down the steps and I get to the door and people, I’m going to tell you, I don’t know how I didn’t faint when that door opened, because it would have been very easy. Somebody to my left, I walk in the door, boom, it’s over. I don’t know how I didn’t paint, quite honestly, I was nervous.

I walk in, I’m here. And all the while, honestly, I’m trying not to show that I’m scared. But they saw it, they wanted was intentional. This whole setup, the way it was worked. And I get in and we sit down. Two guys at the table, aside from Junior, and they start grilling me about money in the gas business. Now, people, you know, that I’m not going to get into. I was making a lot of money, and I was turning in a lot of money. But there was an article that came out, I believe the Long Island Press, that said my indictment, I was making $2 billion, or I defrauded the government out of $2 billion, something like that.

I don’t know. It wasn’t 2 billion. It was a lot of money. A lot of money, but it wasn’t $2 billion. I don’t believe so. And they started drilling me. And, you know, I. I started getting angry. I say, wait a second. I’m doing all of this. I’m taking all the risk. I didn’t involve anybody else. Nobody even knows who you are. I got my crew. I’m taking the risk. I’m handing you over all this money, and now I’m being questioned about it. I never even had to borrow anything from. I don’t need anything. You protected me.

Yeah. When I sat down, we won. But I should be. Because I’m handing in all this money, and now you’re looking at me like I did something wrong. I’m starting to get angry. You don’t get angry with the boss. Never get angry with the boss, right? I catch myself. We talk, we talk, we talk. It goes on maybe 45 minutes to an hour, grilling me about different things. And finally it’s over. All right? We’re satisfied. Everything is good. No problem. Let’s have a drink. Glass of wine? You know, a little bit. Honestly, I wanted out of there.

I just wanted to get out of there. Didn’t want to stay in there anymore. I was that aggravated, I was angry. I look at Jimmy, said, jimmy, I got a long ride back to Long Island. Take me to my car. I say goodbye to everybody who was there, Junior, whoever was there. I think Alley Boy was there. And I get in the car with Jimmy. The other guy wasn’t there. And I’m really upset with him because I knew Jimmy all my life, and he didn’t tell me a thing. He didn’t prepare me for anything. So we get in the car, and I was ready to just let him have it, right? And as we get in, he turns to me and he said, before you say anything, I know you.

I know what you’re going to say. Before you say anything, listen to me. And I said, what? He said, I want to tell you something. You held yourself up in there pretty good tonight, Mike. This was a problem. And I looked at him and I said, you knew this? You knew you could have been walking me into my death, and you don’t say a word to me? I knew you all my life. This is what kind of friend you are. Just like that. And he turned to me. He was a very smart guy, and he said to me, well, let me ask you something.

I said, what? As if this was the other way around. Would you have told me? I said, no. He said, mike, this is the life we lead. He said, you grew up in it. You know it as well or better than anybody else. The life we lead. Okay. He was right. Had the right answer. I’m sitting there, I couldn’t even talk anymore. I was just emotion, angry, whatever I was. I go to get out of the car. When we get near my car, I’ll never forget people. He grabs Mom. You know, he was in the driver’s seat, grabs Mom.

He says, I’m gonna tell you something, Mike. I am your friend. He said, I’m gonna tell you this. You’re not gonna like it, but take this to the bank. I said, watch, Amy. He said, your father was in there earlier tonight before you. He didn’t help you one bit. He hurt you in there. I looked at him. I was so stunned, I couldn’t even respond. You know, for a minute, I didn’t even think about my dad. I didn’t even think about it because I was so angry with what went on there. I didn’t say. I didn’t even ask them, where’s my dad? I want them to show.

I didn’t want them to think that I was worried or nervous. But they saw it. They wanted me to be nervous. They wanted to show me who the boss was. It’s the life. I get out of the car and I start walking to my car, and I said, what in the heck could my father have done? And then I’m thinking, knowing my father so well, this is my dad to the tea. Hey, I’m on parole. My son does everything. I don’t do anything. He handles it all. If something is missing, if something’s not going down right, you got to ask him.

Don’t ask me. He just backed right off. He didn’t take any weight. He didn’t say, my son would never do anything wrong. My son’s a good soldier. He would never. He could have stood up for me because he had a lot of juice, but he didn’t. And I know. I was told afterwards exactly what went down. And I believed it. I did. That had an impact on me. You know, we have defining moments in our life. My first big defining moment was the night dad proposed me. My second big defining moment, maybe not. There were a lot of ones in between.

I don’t want to get into it fully the night I got made, but this was a defining moment. Why? Because I said, if this life can separate from father and son, what do I really have here? What is this really all about? It really struck me, and I just filed it away. You know, in that life, people, you don’t talk out of school, you don’t say a lot, keep things inside of you. I didn’t say a word to my dad. And honestly, I didn’t love him any less. I knew my father. I didn’t love him any less.

We all have faults. I have faults. My dad, I understood him. Because you got to understand something about Sonny Francis. His legacy in that life meant more to him than anything else. He wanted to be known as the guy that died with his boots on. Never talk to the feds, never give anybody up. That’s just who he was. His family destroyed in the interim, no doubt about it. But he wanted to be known as the most upstanding guy that there was. Okay? So even here, I didn’t do anything wrong. What are you asking me for? My son handles everything.

I don’t know what he’s doing. Don’t tell me everything. That’s the way he took it. That’s the way he. He approached it. Damaging. Yeah. Yeah, it did hurt me. If he would have stood up for me a little bit stronger. They may not have grilled me the way they did, but he didn’t. Okay. The life. You know, my father was my father. He was also my brother. As a soldier and a capo in that life, I get it. I get it. It’s almost like two different. Not people, but two different personalities, emotions, whatever you want to call it.

I filed it away. Never said a word to my dad. Never until something happened. People, why did you leave the life? You know, look, there’s guys on YouTube come out with all these different things. But people, look. When I took my plea, I took a plea for a different reason. Because I fell in love with my wife, who’s now my wife of 40 years. She was a young girl. She was 20 years old. Young. And I knew this life was so destructive to families. How do I know? Because I know. My family was destroyed. My sister, 27 years old, dies of an overdose of drugs.

My baby sister, 40 years old, she dies. Never mentally stable. Couldn’t handle all the turbulence in our life. My mother, 2012, she passed away. Ugly relationship with my dad because she blamed him for everything that went wrong. All the stuff that went wrong, and rightfully so. It all went wrong because my father was a member of Cosa Nostradamus just like every other family. They suffer as a result of the members of that life. My brother, 25 years a drug addict. What we had to do just to keep him alive, all the headaches that he caused us, the whole family destroyed, broke up, destroyed.

My father, 40 years in prison, disaster. And every other made member, their father, their family is the same thing, different circumstances. Of course, now I fall in love with this girl. I said, am I going to do this to her? I’m a major target. I’m going to go down at some point. Giuliani said he’s going to give me 100 years if he convicted me. I beat that case. But that’s what he told me in the courtroom. Look at the commission guys. Hundred year sentences. They would have given me at least 50, 67, who knows? I was one of the youngest guys there.

And after all the times I beat him, they wanted to get even with me. They wanted to put me away for a long time. They told me that. So that’s my fate. I’m not going to beat them forever. I knew that I wasn’t Superman. I knew that I wasn’t that narcissistic or that proud of myself. Hey, I can just keep beating them. Oh, the government, United States governed the most powerful government in the world. They’ll get you when they got to get you. Trust me. They have all the money, all the time, all the resources. They can do it.

Our family was a warring family. A lot of guys died. But what’s going to happen to me, I’m either die. I’m going to go to jail for the rest of my life. I’m going to marry a young girl and put her through this. Why? Got to make a break. I made a break because of that woman. That was it. I fell very much in love with her. It’s my soulmate. 40 years. How we’re together. 40 years. It’s another story. After all we went through. Very, very tough. Very tough. You people know, I took a pre. I did eight years in prison at a 10 year sentence.

I had $15 million in restitution and forfeiture clauses and all this kind of stuff. I’m in prison, I walk away. Big story comes out. Life magazine quitting the Mafia. Now I got everybody mad at me. Persico wants to kill me. My father, they came into prison, said, your father went along with the contract. Boom. You’re in a lot of trouble. Cooperate with us. We’ll put you in a program. We’ll preserve your life and that of your families. People. I didn’t want to do that. No. I wasn’t happy with Persico. I knew what he did. I remember that time he put.

Put me on the spot. I didn’t hate him. I didn’t want to hurt him. I didn’t want to put him in prison. It’s not who I am. I don’t want to do those kind of things. I said no. Government gave me a very hard time here. I’m not going to get into that. You know the story. But here’s what happened. I do five years in prison. I get out. I’m on parole for 13 months. Very tough 13 months. People. It was public that I walked away from that life. The government was upset because I wouldn’t cooperate to the extent that they wanted me to.

I told him a lot of stuff that I did, but I wasn’t looking to put people in jail. I knew how to maneuver. I knew how to make them a little bit happy, tell them something, but not give them everything to the point where they finally got frustrated with me and said, this guy’s full of it. And it’s. This is proven. John Gleason was the prosecutor. He said in his book, Michael put us on a wild goose chase. He didn’t give us anything. I didn’t. And finally they had enough. I’m out on parole. They violate my parole.

Pick me up in a bank as I’m walking out. Franzish, you’re done. They confiscated all my money. They took my car away, took every penny out of my wife’s purse. Went home with a. Went to my home with a search warrant. They cleaned us out. They drive me down to the federal lockup in la, ready to transport me back to Brooklyn in the morning. He said, francis, we’re done with you. We know you played a game with us. We violated your parole. We’re dying. You on another racketeering case, no doubt you’re going to spend the rest of your life in prison.

You’ve done. You’re done. And they threw me in a hole, and I’m in solitary. And people, I want to tell you, I think I may have said this before. I say this in church. I can tell you that part of my testimony, of course. Been doing it for 30 years. And I said, you know, I’m done. Took all my money. You’re gonna indict me on another racketeering case? People, you don’t beat these cases with public defenders. I spent millions defending myself. I said, they can’t put me out on the yard. I got everybody looking to hurt me.

I said, My wife, 27 years old, she waited for me five years, tough years. 13 months on parole. Bad 13 months dodging bullets. Basically, I said, we got two little bet. How’s she gonna wait for me Now I’m gonna lose the girl I did all of this for. I’m laying there, people. I was done. Do you ever feel so bad that you didn’t want to wait? You wanted to close your eyes and not wake up? It was too painful for me to even think of my future. That’s how bad it was. I’m not going to go through the whole thing, but tell you, this was a prison guard that handed me a Bible that night.

And that’s when I started my search. And, you know, I. I have to say this because every once in a while, we have to face our own demons. We have to face them. We don’t like to face them. We don’t like to be honest with ourselves at times because it hurts. They say the truth hurts. That’s true. That sometimes we don’t want to face ourselves and say, come on. Well, people, look, I didn’t leave the life for any noble reason. I don’t think I left the life basically selfishly. I wanted the girl. That was it. I knew I couldn’t have both, so I chose the girl.

It was selfish. If you want to put it in those terms, you can. That’s justified. Was selfish. But I’m reading the Bible. I’m reading the book of Proverbs that Night. And I came to a verse that just struck me. How could I say it? Just Christians out there. You know what I mean? These verses do. The Holy Spirit, God speaks to you through these verses? Proverbs 16:7. When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, even his enemies are at peace with him. Wow. Nothing but enemies that night on both sides of the law. Nobody like me, I thought.

And then it was almost as if, you know, the enemy’s verse got me. And it was almost as if I was looking in front of the mirror and God started to talk to me. Now, let me make this clear. I don’t have any special relationship with God. Meaning that he’s never spoke to me in a dream. I’ve never seen him in a dream. I’ve never heard him speak to me audibly. I don’t have those gifts. Some people do. I don’t. I don’t have that experience. He speaks to my heart. Now I have a relationship there. But was almost as if it was instilled in me.

Who are you kidding? Who are you kidding? In your mind, you’re still a mobster. You didn’t change your way in anything. You didn’t do anything. And you may die in here. And who knows, somebody may kill you. Unless you’re with me. Because if you’re with me, I can take care of your enemies. That’s how I interpreted that verse. That’s what in my mind, that’s what came out. And I know it was God instilling that thought in my mind. You come with me, I’ll take care of your enemies. It was a powerful verse, a powerful moment in my life, a defining moment.

And it really caused me to move on and read. Well, I’m not going to get through it all because some of you heard this, but I spent 29 months and seven days in solitary. 24, seven. They let you out five hours a week, allegedly by policy, to go in the cage, in the yard so you get some fresh air, but you never get the whole five hours. The gods are lazy. And it was tough people. Solitary is tough. Don’t let anybody tell you any different. You want to throw your chest out and be a tough. It’s tough.

I got through it. I’ve seen some bad things go on with guys that couldn’t handle it. I don’t demean them. It was very tough, very tough. But it was during that time that I developed my faith. Because I studied. I studied every faith, every faith. Not only Christianity, but I came down to there. A believer In God. Christian now. Okay, Michael, you did that because you practically admitted that you were a bad guy. You did some bad things. Did you kill somebody? You’re not admitting it, but maybe you did. I know what some of you are thinking out there.

How did this guy get his stripes? How did he become a made guy? Come on. I know he had to do some things. And you really believe. You really believe right now that you’re forgiven? You really believe that? My answer is yes, I do. And the reason I believe that is because that’s the whole basis of the Christian faith. It’s all based upon Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Christian faith. If you believe that he lived, and there’s no doubt about it, historical. The evidence is there, plain and simple and clear. And he died on the cross, same thing.

Evidence is perfectly clear. And then rose from the dead, same thing. Same authors that wrote all the four Gospels wrote that. And all of the New Testament, they witnessed it. Well, the basis of our faith is if you confess your sins, you ask for forgiveness, and you accept Christ as your savior, then you are forgiven. That’s it. Not my word. God’s word. That’s it. Now, some people say, come on, Michael, is it that easy? It’s that easy if you’re sincere. What do I mean by that? You know, some people say, oh, Michael, born again till you’re out again.

Oh, you’re using this, you know. Yeah, you can make a lot of money. You go out, make believe you’re a Christian, you go talk in church. If I’m doing that, what are you worried about? Let me tell you something, people. God judges our heart. He knows our heart. If you think that I think I’m so good, or I’m such a narcissist, or I’m so full of myself that I can pull a scam on God, then you really think a lot more of me than I think of myself. I can’t pull a scam on God. Nobody can pull a scam on God.

And one day we’re going to stand in front of him. I believe that with all my heart. And he’s going to look at us and we’re going to have to answer for some of the things that we’ve done. There are consequences to our action, but we’re forgiven. And I want to be able to stand in front of God. So, yeah, I confess my sins and I really mean it, because I do have regrets. I did some bad things, God, and I’m sorry for it. And he’s going to judge my heart and he knows. And there’s four words I don’t ever want to hear.

I don’t ever want to hear. You know what those four words are? I never knew you. If Jesus, who stands in judgment of all of us, says those four words, you’re hellbound. That’s it. Because if we think we can pull a scam on God, we are out of our minds. I don’t believe it. Now, you people can take that for what it’s worth, but this is from a former mobster who spent 20 years on the street who did some bad things. And you know what? I’m probably one of the most fortunate guys on YouTube. Why? Because had I stayed on the path that I was on, I’d either be dead or in prison for the rest of my life, and I certainly wouldn’t be heaven bound.

Do I believe I am? Yes. Why do I believe that? Because God told me that in his Bible. Told me that. Confess your sins. Accept Jesus Christ sincerely and honestly. You’re not pulling a scam on me. Your life is going to show us that you’re not going to live in a pattern of sin anymore. I know your heart. You’re not kidding me. And you will enter the gates of heaven. Bible is very clear. And I’m sorry, people, but I believe it. I believe it with all my heart, based upon the evidence and based upon what I’ve seen him do, not only in my life, but in the life of other people.

I’ve seen it and I believe it. So this is a former mobster, not celebrating, but thinking back at 50 years ago. 50 years ago, I gave my soul to the devil. No other way to put it. I gave my soul to the devil. I was born again into Cosa Nostra. Born again. And you know, as a Christian, we have to be born again. Sacrament of baptism. Born again. I call it a sacrament. We got to be baptized of the Spirit. So look, why am I saying this? Because I reflect on this night. I really do. And tonight I’m going to reflect on it even more in Thanksgiving.

In Thanksgiving that God delivered me from where I was. Now, I want to be clear, people. I am not demeaning or saying anything bad about anybody else in that life when, I mean, anybody could have been sick. I. I can’t judge somebody’s heart. I can’t. That’s God’s job. It’s not ours. Not yours, not mine, not anyone’s. We can’t make that judgment. It’s God’s judgment on us. But there’s no question that we all, all were born again into a criminal lifestyle where we were. We were born into sin, period, when we took that off. And it’s a bad lifestyle as a result.

Now, I’ve said this before. Yeah. Vegas was run better when we were part of it. Yes, absolutely. Our neighborhoods were safe. We did a lot of things that were good for the neighborhoods and for certain people and this and that. Yeah. But at the bottom line, people, we were criminals, and there’s no other way. We were criminals. We would break the law and we would engage in sin. No question about it. And for those people that’s still living that life, if they want to be honest and true to themselves, they’ll say the same thing. I’m not judging them.

I’m not judging anybody that’s in that life right now, now. But you got to be honest with yourself. You got to have that defining moment and look in the mirror and say, who am I kidding? I’m a criminal. I’m living outside of God’s laws and the laws of man. So, look, I am going to have a glass of wine tonight. I’m going to toast my Lord and I’m going to thank him for delivering me. Gave me my life, gave me my freedom, gave me a wife that stuck by me through heaven and hell with all the baggage that I brought to the table.

He gave me seven beautiful children. He gave me seven beautiful, amazing grandchildren. And look, I still have struggles, I still have challenges. Some of them I bring on myself. Hopefully, I’m a little bit wiser now, but, man, I am blessed in that regard. I really am. And I’ll reflect on this night. Halloween night, 1975, 50 years ago. There was a time when I thought I wouldn’t be around that long. I really wouldn’t. When you look at the history, you know, look at that Fortune magazine article. 50 guys, just about all of them gone. I think there’s one other out there that’s in his 90s, either in prison or might have just gotten out, something like that.

I don’t know. But, man, you know, 50 years, people, Halloween night. Oh, was there a significance that this was Halloween night? No, it was just the night that they felt was secure. Didn’t matter that it was Halloween. There’s no hidden meaning behind it being Halloween. I want to make that very clear. That’s it. My friends and I want to thank. You know, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you. Our channel has really grown. I don’t ask people to subscribe, but if you listen to this and you got through it. Hit the subscribe button because you’re helping us grow.

And I’ll continue to try to entertain you, to try to inform you and give you these stories for as long as God lets me continue to do it. You know, there’ll be a time when he’ll say, that’s enough and how it goes. But for now, you know, I really thank all of you. I never thought I’d be on YouTube. I never thought I’d be a speaker. I never thought I’d be doing three quarters of the things that I’m doing today. And I feel very blessed as a result of that, you know, you know, people. I only wish, you know, that people could take me really seriously and understand the extent and the magnitude of what the Lord has done in my life.

I don’t claim credit for it. There is no blueprint for walking away from that life publicly, not entering a witness protection program, being out in public, giving, sharing the story with people and just be alive to tell about it. There’s no blueprint for doing that. I didn’t say I had a significant plan, that I had it all worked out. I did not. And there were some things that happened along the way. I’m gonna, I’m gonna tell you this. There’s some guys out there that are telling stories about me and I can tell you they’re not true.

I’m not going to get into it, they’re just not true. But you know, on social media people come out and they say things as latest guys saying that I had some, A lot of this stuff is not true. But I understand they want to get views. You know, I’m a high profile guy. They figure they’ll use me, use my name and it’ll have people on YouTube do it. That’s what it is. Look, I like bringing high pro profile guests on too because they’re interesting and certainly it helps the channel. We got to be honest about it.

Of course it does. You know, I understand, but I’m not going to lie about these people. I’m not going to make up stories about these people and I’m not going to make up stories, period. Because like I said, I have somebody greater to answer to. At some point. We’re going to answer for everything we do in our life. I’m not perfect, tell you that by long shot. But I do have boundaries. I do have boundaries that I’m not going to cross. So understand that. So I want to thank all of you. I hope you go out and enjoy Halloween if you’re into it.

I don’t dress up. They try to get me to dress up, but I don’t do that. But I’m going to watch my grandkids tonight. You know, it’s such a, such a blessing to be able to see the joy in your grandkids faces and your kids when they just having a good time. Don’t take Halloween that seriously unless you’re me. And it had the meaning that it had, you know, 50 years. I, I get on my knees and thank the Lord that I’m still here to talk to all of you and to enjoy my family and to enjoy this, this world that God has given us.

Through all the stuff that we go through and through all the evil and a lot of evil in the world, people. A lot of evil in the world. This is the enemy is working overtime. A lot of evil. It wants to bring a lot of people down. We’ve seen it in our own country, we know. But Halloween shouldn’t significant signify that that’s not what this is all about. Go out, have some fun. Trick or treat, Enjoy your family. That’s what it’s all about. And know that your, your friend Michael Francis will be thanking the Lord tonight.

On this day 50 years ago when I gave my life to the wrong person and today I’ve been redeemed. So that’s it for today, people. How do I always leave you? Same way. Be safe. Especially tonight. Some crazy people out there. Make sure you go through the candy, watch your kids. You do all the stuff you’re supposed to do. So be safe, be healthy. Don’t eat too much candy. I have a problem. I like candy. I like chocolate. You know, I’ll stay away from it, but I’ll sneak a few of the things out of the basket and out of the bag.

Be safe, be healthy. And I really do mean this, people. God bless each and every one of you. I don’t say this lightly. God bless each and every one of you, all of your family, your friends, your neighborhoods and your communities. And yeah, God bless America. We need God to bless America and there is a Jesus revolution going on. So that blessing is happening. And that’s it for tonight. Yes, I’ll see you next time. Please stay tuned. God bless all of you. And my friends, before I go, I want to remind you, Franz East Wine. I now have a wine branded in my name from the world’s oldest vineyards.

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