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In our studio, we have two gentlemen that are stars of this show.

Looks like it's pretty damn compelling.

It might be the finest documentary on organized crime in America that I've ever seen.

Inside the American Mob on Nat Geo.

I want to welcome Michael Franziz and Salvatore Polisi to be there show this morning.

Gentlemen, welcome to Philadelphia.

Good to be here.

Thanks for being here.

Nice.

We were looking at your, well, I guess, credentials, if you will.

And you guys were deep inside the world of, and what is the popper phrase?

I mean, the show is called the American mob?

Is it the mafia, La Kosanostra?

What do you guys prefer to refer to it as?

La Cozanostra.

Okay.

And you were deep inside this for most of your life? Well, my dad was, uh, was the underboss of the Colombo family and I grew up in that life. And then I spent almost 20 years there myself. Michael, you were, you were, um, you were kind of the, uh, you had a great business savvy and that was your strong point in in the in the

family and you were up you took i guess what is called uh the blood oath so you were you were in

deep and yet you were able to walk away from it as as as uh as you were a sale i mean to two of you

i mean this is from our outward perception this is something that doesn't happen a lot. At least the way the movies depict the mob, and that's really the way we get a lot of our information. But isn't it a little easier now to walk away? Michael was really born into royalty. I was a street guy. I mean, I'm on the street, you know? Right, yeah. So, uh, it's quite different. I think Michael sort of in a strange way akin to Michael Coleone. I mean, he's born into it. So, I mean, when you think about it, that's really a story. And his dad was convicted with my uncle in the 60s of bank robbery. So, you know, we had sort of remote connection. So I mean, now, now, in the, in the, um, uh, in the 60s of bank robbery. So, you know, we had sort of remote connections.

So, I mean, now, now, and in the, in the, in the, in the, uh, in the, uh, they explain how, um,

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