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Wealthy Way

Former Mafia Boss Breaks Down Cartels In Mexico, US Corruption & Shifts In Power

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Ryan Pineda and co-host Brian Davila interview former mob boss Michael Franzese as he shares his perspective on cartels, global politics, the Epstein files, and faith after leaving the mafia.⁣

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I Made $8,000,000 A Week In The Mob | Michael Franzese - https://youtu.be/siOsknie7m0⁣
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CHAPTERS:⁣
1:55 - Cartels vs The Mafia⁣
7:40 - Government, Taxes, and “The Biggest Crime Organization.”⁣
12:20 - Iran, Global Conflict, and Trump⁣
19:40 - The Epstein Files⁣
47:25 - Why Politics Is More Divided Than Ever in America.⁣
1:05:40 - From Mob Life to Faith

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Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.

Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.





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All right, today I brought in the ex mob boss, Michael Francis, to talk about what's going on in Mexico, and I ran the Epstein files and so much more. What's up, man? It's good to see you again. Good to be back. Yeah, last time we had you on the show, we were talking about how you were making $8 million a week in the mob, and, you know, that kind of got you locked up. and then, you know, it all worked out for your good, found Jesus.

0:22.4

And so since then, we done a lot of stuff together you know in the non-profit

0:25.7

side and so it's good to finally talk again on the podcast yeah good to be back and we'll be spending

0:32.0

more time here in vegas area because we opened up a plant in henderson for our pizza yeah so now i'll be going back and forth quite a bit. So this is just like New York style pizza. It's just, what is it? It's the best frozen pizza you're ever going to eat, guaranteed. What's it called? It's called slices. Slices. Yeah, we sell it by the slice. Okay. Dude, I'm, I'm excited. I get all the homeschool kids out outside, and we're going to have them just chow down. Well, we're going to be talking a lot about it now that the plant is ready, and we're starting to deliver to markets and other places, so you'll hear a lot about it. Yeah, you said you guys can produce like 300,000 slices a day. That's crazy. A day.

1:11.6

Every product is from Italy.

1:12.6

It's all very healthy and it's just delicious.

1:15.6

You know, the way it happened, we were in the franchise business and then COVID came about.

1:21.6

And I told my partner, what are we going to do?

1:23.6

And he said, well, let's go into the pizza business.

1:26.6

And I said, Tony, everybody in their brother is into pizza. And he and, well, let's go into the pizza business. I said, Tony, everybody in their

1:28.5

brother is into pizza. And he and I go back 40 years. I said, what are you going to do different?

1:32.8

He said, well, let me show you. So he goes to Italy for like six months and comes back with this

1:37.7

tremendous recipe, all healthy ingredients. And it's been a total hit. Yeah. I mean, it's delicious.

1:43.8

I love it. Well, dude dude you've been talking a lot

1:47.1

lately about all these things going on in the u.s with iran and mexico and you know everything else

1:54.3

let's let's talk about mexico first because that one's interesting right the cartel

1:58.5

mexico usually does nothing to the cartel

2:01.0

because it's like they kind of run the country a bit.

2:04.8

And then obviously you have a lot of experience in the underground scene.

2:10.2

So like what do you think of all that?

2:12.7

Well, you know, it kind of hit us hard because we have a condo

2:15.9

that we frequent in, Puerto Vallata.

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