Michael Franzese

[Mayer]

For anyone who might be interested, Michael Franzese, former Mob Captain in the Columbo family, is speaking at Foothills Alliance Church tonight at 7:00pm.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Fo...174/story.html

[Mayer]

Originally Posted by Mayer

For anyone who might be interested, Michael Franzese, former Mob Captain in the Columbo family, is speaking at Foothills Alliance Church tonight at 7:00pm.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Fo...174/story.html

Oh, and it's free.

[Mayer]

I hope no one took me up on that. Turns out it was canceled last minute. I think he may have been whacked.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Is that the same guy who goes on Jim Rome?

Love the interviews Rome does with him.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford

Is that the same guy who goes on Jim Rome?

Love the interviews Rome does with him.

Well, if that's the case, that would have been pretty interesting to hear.

[Mayer]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Well, if that's the case, that would have been pretty interesting to hear.

Yeah, he's the same guy. Thats how I had heard of him from hearing him on Rome.

[DropIt]

Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford

Is that the same guy who goes on Jim Rome?

Love the interviews Rome does with him.

Same guy. And if you are interested in business he makes a great comparison between the gangster life and the world of business in his books

[metallicat]

So it wasn't cancelled due to him not getting into the country?

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ma...174/story.html

[Mayer]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

So it wasn't cancelled due to him not getting into the country?

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ma...174/story.html

I'm guessing that's what it was. I posted that article in my first post but I never heard from the organizers that it was canceled so I assumed he got in without a problem.

[afc wimbledon]

We'd occasionally have speakers come into the jail I worked at, the kids always went out thinking 'that guys G, I wanna be a gangster' and all of the speakers continued to glamerize the life that they perported to declaim.

[metallicat]

From what I've heard of Franzese on Rome, he isn't like that at all.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

We'd occasionally have speakers come into the jail I worked at, the kids always went out thinking 'that guys G, I wanna be a gangster' and all of the speakers continued to glamerize the life that they perported to declaim.

It's a bit different from the average guy needing to get in his community service hours. He works as a motivational/religious speaker I take it and this his life now.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It's a bit different from the average guy needing to get in his community service hours. He works as a motivational/religious speaker I take it and this his life now.

I havn't heard the guy but I will go out on a limb and say that in order for any one to want to hear him speak, whilst telling you how aweful the life is, it will still sound like a Goodfellows episode, which half arsed wanna be gangsters love.

Unless he is admitting to swallowing dick to get a dime bag of scag, but I doubt that.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I havn't heard the guy but I will go out on a limb and say that in order for any one to want to hear him speak whilst telling you how awefull the life is it will still sound like a Goodfellows episode, which half arsed wanna be ghangsters love.

Unless he is admitting to swallowing dick to get a dime bag of scag, but I doubt that.

He is in a church afterall. I'm guessing it will be more like your typical sermony/testimony/slightly evangelical thing.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

We'd occasionally have speakers come into the jail I worked at, the kids always went out thinking 'that guys G, I wanna be a gangster' and all of the speakers continued to glamerize the life that they perported to declaim.

I saw this Franzese guy interviewed on some show or another and while the message he was pushing was "don't be a criminal", there was a certain amount of bravado about how good he had it when he was a criminal. "It's bad, don't be a criminal, but man did I make a lot of money and bang a lot of chicks, don't be like me, but I really lived the life".

John Gotti jr. was on 60 Minutes tonight and it was the same kind of thing. Talking about "respect" and "I don't live that life no more, but if you disrespect my family..." and "I was a real big shot".

He was even talking about how "he was good with his hands" when he was a kid. It reminded me of a 50 year-old bragging about his high school football career (and in this case his dad was the coach).

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

I saw this Franzese guy interviewed on some show or another and while the message he was pushing was "don't be a criminal", there was a certain amount of bravado about how good he had it when he was a criminal. "It's bad, don't be a criminal, but man did I make a lot of money and bang a lot of chicks, don't be like me, but I really lived the life".

John Gotti jr. was on 60 Minutes tonight and it was the same kind of thing. Talking about "respect" and "I don't live that life no more, but if you disrespect my family..." and "I was a real big shot".

He was even talking about how "he was good with his hands" when he was a kid. It reminded me of a 50 year-old bragging about his high school football career (and in this case his dad was the coach).

Kids arn't stupid, they know full well the only reason anyone is listening to the guy is because he was a gangster, from a teenagers point of view the lesson is if you want to be listened to and have some importance in life, be a gangster!

The only guy I ever heard that actually scared/made kids think was a guy that talked about doing a long stretch in federal and how you got so lonely you ended up with a 'room mate' willingly after a while, now that scared the crap out of the guys! no scare mongering about rape, just you will have a life so sad and lonely you will sleep with a dude just to have some love in your life.