History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - 191. Tanks Good News is WILD!

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

THIS IS A THROWBACK TO JUNE 2019! AS YOU KNOW we have this on our YouTube but not on our AUDIO LIBRARY. As we are coming to an end we are wrapping up our F&B PRODUCTION! Listen to this TBT ep! The man behind the most popular page on Instagram Tanks Good News and Influencers in The Wild is a good friend of the show and a Long Island gym rat. It is Tank Sinatra! Listen in as the birth of “shout out, Smithtown, watah!” happens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be back. Well hello everybody, we're back again. It's Yanni Pussyhatpappas and Chris Kahn collector DeStefano, your favorite two hyenas. It's another episode of history hyenas. Yeah, and our guest today is Tank Sinatra you guys know from his Instagram. I now I know from my wet dreams. Holy shit. You're fucking diesel You're a cute kid tank What's your real name tank George What's your real last name rash George rash also known as tank, also known as TankedOutSinatra on Instagram. Now you look like a muscular guy, but you look like one of these muscular guys who does

have a nice big thick piece. Just right into it. Yeah. Yeah. Because Tank Sinatra. He's like, am I on a gay podcast right now? Yeah. Kind of.

Maybe. No, Tank is, we we met I met I met you The first time I've ever met the first time we've ever touched each other first time We ever touch each other. Yeah, we bruise each other on grinder a little bit, but we've never fully met Yeah, but on never shnoodled on we never shnoodle on Instagram cuz cuz let's be crisp Let's just be crystal clear we talked about when we say somebody screwed in on this podcast that means like they're fucking got their shit together They're making a lot of money. They're Jewish. So we're gonna start losing the Jewish part Don't you think a lot of money they make a lot of money tanks and outra the definition was screwed in kid

Yeah, he's got a one point what seven milli on Instagram on one account on one account got paid fucking a lot of cash all to post something for clusterfest Comedy Central cluster first drew 21st 23rd he picked my clip to post reached out to me and he got me a lot of followers and I banged a couple of your fans he just said not Trudeau yeah no that was like a that was a love move oh really they gave me a stipend to come to San Francisco to see oh Oh, okay. Oh, that's even better. Yeah, that was like, that happened last year and I passed on it because I didn't want to go to San Francisco. Cause too many gays? I'd never survived. Yeah, same with me dude. On the real, I mean we're way off the rails already, but let's talk about

gay guys and how much they really like my account. Yes. They love it I've gotten more dick pics than like a 23 year old same with me like girl. Yeah, yeah mad Well, not as many as you but I'm saying gay men Typically, they like sending their dick and balls They open up with it is it because you think it's cuz they think you're gay I think yeah, and I think it's cuz I think I'm gay. They wish you were gay. I yeah I wish I would come out of the closet. Well, they just listen and they know. I know I'm gay.

They know how wild he is, so they know. Gay guys, gay guys, if the gay guys. Tank, I'll sit in your fucking lap right now. It'll happen. Let's do it. Gay guys like, they don't mind the challenge. If they can sense there's like a 3% that that door's open, 3%, they'll go for it.

Cause he got a picture once of a guy, it wasn't a dick pic, it was just a guy up against the wall, open asshole. Open asshole and his balls out. Yeah, and the message before that was like, yo man, I'm a real big fan of your comedy. He said I'm a big fan of your comedy, yeah.

And then the next one was just, Here's my asshole. Here's my asshole, I don't know what. Then he said, I swear to God, the message was like, I'm sorry if that was too aggressive. Yeah, I can read it right now. He said, I'm sorry if that was too aggressive, but maybe we can just, instead, maybe we can just

sit around and joke off together, it's up to you. Yeah, so. He said stuff like that, yeah. too aggressive, but maybe we can just instead maybe we can just sit around and talk off together It's up to you. Yeah, you said something like that. Yeah, those are your two only two choices. Yeah right here Yeah, yeah Yeah If you look at that he was giving him up He sent me a picture of his dick and balls and he said if you ever decide to use that pre come on a dude I guess I'd said talked about pre come then he said sorry if that was aggressive LOL I found you really attractive then he said no response any of these then he said I live in New Jersey

So if he even just wanted to go off together, I'm down. Yeah, which then I favorited that one. Yeah, see that Look at that tank. What do you get something like that? You can't cameras up there. Oh, yes Wait, so is you there's the you being gay thing a real thing or is that just like like you? Let me ask you a question. Do you think you're gay or not scared? You might be gay. I well we've talked about this on the podcast. I'm not gay I have you know, I don't I fall in love with men. I have sex with women So I'm not not gay, but I'm not fully gay because I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no Breast coming in like

Transgender women. Yeah, okay. I don't mind as long whatever if I'm fooled. Yeah, I'm fooled He likes a big in he likes a big and a nice pair of and that's truthful. Yeah Wait, so you guys know what intrusive thoughts are? like I'm like I've recently come to terms with the fact that I struggle with them hard. And part of the, like one of the first intrusive thoughts that men typically experience is being scared that you're gay.

When you're like, when I was 17, I was like, oh my God, what if I'm gay? I don't wanna suck a dick, but what if I do suck a dick? And then I'm gay. But before that, that wasn't my first one, that was my second one. My first one, I hope you guys appreciate this. Was that you were too skinny and then you did something about it.

Yeah. No. So when I was like 16 or 17, I became convinced. I have like, my brain is a little fucked up. A little fucked up. I became convinced to a man, like straight up, this is the way it is now, that I was retarded and nobody would tell me because A, love me be I wouldn't understand so I asked my mom if people I said mom do you think people would say I'm like slow that's how I

asked her right what are you talking about I was like I'll forget it and I wasn't retarded anymore interesting so you thought you just a and retarded I thought I was retarded and then well. Well, I tell a story on my podcast. I mean, there's more, but those are the two big ones. I was 12 years old. I've told this many times, but I'll say it again, because where my thoughts come from. I was 12 years old.

I was taking a shit. I was like the run to my friend group. And my friends, the McClilly brothers came in and held my legs down, and one of them knocked their cock off my back molars. And it was just like what it is. It's just like what happens in Ridgewood. And then I had a priest, Father Bill, who told me once to go get the

tunic from the upstairs rectory. And then I blacked out. And I don't know what happened after that. So there are a couple of things that float around in there. I would say I'm a gay floater. Yeah. No, no, no. What you're describing is two possible sexual assaults. Yeah. Doesn't make you gay. Yeah. It means the, no what you're describing is two possible sexual assaults. Yeah, doesn't make you gay

Yeah, it means you the crime happened to you twice Yeah, but I'm a kid from Ridgewood. You just feel like that's a bad gay act well the by the way Where are you from because you got a new you are kind of thing you look like a Police officer out from the island you have the kind of local you don't have to take the test you just got the job Yeah, they offered me the job multiple times 100% Yeah, I would you would pastor it's not even about the written test with you. Yeah. It's just about, let's just give him a uniform and give him a gun. Yeah. Godfrey almost got up against the wall when you walked in and showed you his arms. You got the kind of look where, yeah, especially long-haired guy, like when

you jerk off and you come, you go, Trump 2020. Oh my God. I mean, we're starting at a hundred. Yo, tanked out, did you know what you were in for with this? Because we thought we were going to talk about history, but you're talking about intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts, bro. That's my history. No, dude, I like that you're like a guy because you're a fitness guy. You wouldn't look, you wouldn't think that you think deeply about that stuff, but it's

fucking awesome that you do. Yeah, my body does not match my insides like the rest of my life. Now, you're on the perfect podcast for that because we're the same way. Yeah, because that's who we are. We're all misunderstood alpha males. That's what this is. Now let's be honest.

You're from out on the island. Yeah. What town on the island? Comack. Wow, Comack town. You should date a girl out in Comack. Chris also, he's from Queens, Ridgewood. Yeah.

Our goal was always to get out to the island. But he also, when he was working out, he did a couple cycles. Okay. You're from out on the island. Have you ever done a cycle? By cycle you mean start I'm talking about when stop defaults. Yeah. Yeah, I mean you haven't stopped is what you're so haven't stopped Yeah You just consistently do steroids. Do you also sell steroids at the moment? Because you look like the guy who takes them and sells them. You know what's funny is I, so like every asshole, I went to a doctor, whatever I wanted

to get, you know, I wanted to see, I trained naturally for 20 years. Then I like wanted to try testosterone. So I went to it was, I mean, fortunately in 2012 or whatever it was, you could go to a doctor and just be like, I wanna be big. He'd be like, okay, I think you have low testosterone. Right, so you legally get testosterone, no problem. It's all legal. It's all legal.

It's all, of course. Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. I also had low Winstral, so. Yeah, you had low Winstral, low testosterone. Winstral's the steroids that I used to take. Is that where you did your cycle? Yeah. I know, but Winstral, but Winstral,

I never got big, it was about performance. but Winstral, I never got big. It was about performance. Like Winstral, I could run faster, jump higher. I found the, yeah, I took that very briefly. This isn't coming out, right? What do you mean? This podcast? Oh, it's coming out.

Oh, man. Wow, you know how to talk about this, all right? You want us to cackle over it? No, I'm just kidding. No, we'll cackle over it. If you want anything out, tell us, truly. Cackle over it? Yeah, we just throw, we just throw hyena cackles over it.

So we cackle over anything that you don't want in. No, so like I said, I trained naturally for 20 years, right? And then I decided I wanted to do a bodybuilding show. Once I tried that, I was like, man, maybe I should try some other stuff. And I tried some other stuff, and I didn't like any of it. Because all of it, like, so Roid rage is obviously a propaganda thing that people try and use to scare people out of fucking it.

Testosterone, zero, none. Actually, I feel happier and more content with my life. Other things definitely make you edgy. Well, testosterone and human growth hormone, all that stuff, doctors are like, maybe it has a negative thing, because it's like, oh, steroids, or it's enhanced, but it's all proven to be positive, healthy things.

The only thing HGH you gotta worry about, it can open up cancer cells in your body. That's what they say. That's what they say, but. There's no data that supports that either. Yeah, because it's not FDA approved, so they just make shit up, right? No, it is.

Oh, it is, okay. Yeah, it's FDA approved. I wouldn't fuck with that because I don't wanna get any bigger at all. I have no desire to be bigger. I'm actively trying to reduce my size constantly. Yeah, I was about to say, I don't know, I don't know if it's possible.

My skin would pop. Yeah, you're as big as you can get with your frame. How many hours in the gym do you spend, or what's the routine now? I'm like, right now I'm doing like three days a week, four days a week max, because I'm trying to actively shrink down a little bit. I'm in there for like 45 minutes.

Oh, real quick, yeah. But I have been doing it for 25 years. Because you went through those times, you're the guy, you've been in the gym for three hours at clips sometimes. Never, no. The cumulative effect is what gets you big. It's never, like with stand-up comedy,

which is what I'm going through right now, you can't beat time. Time is gonna give you, you know what I'm saying? Sure, 7,000 hours, yeah. You can't, there's no way around it. You just gotta be in it for the long game and be patient. Yeah, the results keep coming. And keep going even when you don't see the results.

That's the fucking, that's the thing that keeps you going because you can't see the change in yourself. You really can't. Every once in a while with the standup, I'll be like, oh, that was okay. But I'm so new to it, I don't even count that yet. But with the gym, typically you don't see anything. Because I think I looked the same way I did when I was 14.

Do you find because of your such a popular Instagram, but it's not really like your face isn't on it that much, can you draw tickets from the Instagram yet or not really? So what I'm trying to do now, because I have, so on Tanks and Outro I have the 1.7 million, on Tanks Good News I have 1.1 million. 1.1, that one is actually really fucking, the engagement on that is off the charts.

It's very hard not to like good news, which I was frustrated about, but at least it's still my account, like I'm losing, you know, whatever. But my account's not really growing, so what I'm trying to do now is farm, I guess, the followers for fans, because fans will come see you. Followers will not.

Yes. Good call. If you have whatever you have 50, 60,000 followers on Instagram, you definitely have more fans than I do. You could go pretty much anywhere and sell more tickets than me. Yeah. But. Yeah, cause in standup, it's about, it's all about the interaction,

it's all about, yeah, the fans coming out. Try and deepen the connection, so that's why I started the podcast. Are you sure you go without water? Because we got waters. If you need another water, we can get you water. Because you're drinking a cold water, but we got Poland Spring waters.

We got tons of water. Poland Spring is very acidic. Oh, is it really? So is cold water the water we should be drinking? That's about an eight on the pH scale. That's where you are on the Kinsey scale by the way, so it's it How do you go from bodybuilding to to Instagram? That's a jump yeah, there's not a lot of guys who fuck Jack like you but also have successful because he's a thought like a thoughtful

Kid yeah, so what is the is it a comedy? What is what is tanks and I what's on the gram? It's comedy Yeah, I've loved comedy since I was a kid. I started following him now. Yeah, I don't follow Tank's good news, so I'm gonna get that right now. Yeah, I gotta get on that one too. So my whole life has been positivity with a hint of humor or vice versa.

Humor with a hint of positivity. So that's what those two pages are. Sometimes I'm earnest and sincere, other times I'm sarcastic, but they're all ways me, so nobody ever is like, I don't know, nobody's ever called me fake in my entire life to my face Yeah, but I pride myself on that because I don't want to be different things to different people I want to be one thing to myself and whoever's meant to like me will like me and the people who don't will not and I'm Totally fine with that. How's comedy going? How long you been doing that now?

So this run I'm like my third week in. That's it? How do you feel? Wow. Much better. Yeah, I did it for about three months last year and I was not doing it for the right reason. So the reason, I did it once when I was 23,

did a couple open mics, I hated it. I couldn't handle the nerves, I had no life experience to draw material from My funniest bit in my opinion was out about how I thought I gave myself an STD when I was 13 because I jerked off With shampoo and then it burned when I did like that's it I stuck my dick in a Vicks vapor rub when I was 17. Yeah, yeah, cuz remember used to come in the I fucked it. How did that feel? I was curious to see what it felt like it burned for a long time Yeah, it doesn't stop for a while. There's a lot of, it lingers.

Oh my God. I have chlamydia. So. So. So. Actively, right? Yeah, Chrissy chlamydia. Yeah.

It's what it is. Chrissy clams. So I did it for a short time and I didn't like it. I felt like I was gonna be executed every time I went on stage. I was like that nervous. So I stopped, I gave short time and I didn't like it. I felt like I was gonna be executed every time I went on stage. I was like that nervous. So I stopped, I gave myself every excuse in the book. I don't wanna have to travel, blah, blah, blah.

Really, I was just scared. And then last time I did it, so we have a movie coming out, which I'm actually allowed to talk about, which is great that I'm here because- Who's we? What do you mean? So there's a- Me and Luis J. Gomez?

You and Luis J.? Yeah, me and Luis, yeah. He's always got something cooking Louis J Yeah, no, we can rattlesnake. So there's a movie being made about the people who make the memes. Oh sick meme gods Yeah, so it's like you have the fuck Jerry's and the fat Jewish is the people that were there first and got their following or whatever Right. There's some controversy around that but then you have the people who actually make the memes It's just a hot is what it is the a history hyena podcast, so just keep going. This is what we do.

I will, I will. So there are people out there that make the memes. Like they don't originate out of thin air. So the movie is about them meaning us meaning like me. I'm like one of the main characters because I've done so much with it. But I saw it as a golden opportunity. There's people who I started out with

who have accounts as big as mine that are not doing anything, which is like a shame, but that's their life. There's real money to be had there. There's real money, there's real notoriety, there's real opportunity. You have a golden opportunity. If you have, like I remember when I had 300,000 followers

and the other guy who I was growing right alongside with, I said to him, I'm like, what's your plan? He's like, I don't know, had 300,000 followers and the other guy who I was growing right alongside with, I said to him, I'm like, what's your plan? He's like, I don't know, I'm gonna finish school and figure it out. I'm like, what? You have fucking 300,000 followers, you're gonna, I'm not saying you should quit school,

but you don't have a plan to like monetize this following that you've built that you're never gonna get to build again. This is not a thing you can recreate. This is like a moment in time that you either ride till the end or you miss. And I didn't wanna miss it because I had been trying for so long. I had a blog for, I had three different blogs.

I had a video blog. And none of them really hit or they were slow? I won a Webby for one. I won a Webby award, which is like the Oscar, you know what I mean? Yeah, because that's what we talk about, consistency. Like you just stayed consistent and kept going. Even in the face of like no results or negative results. Just keep going. Yeah, I didn't, I became. It's, kept going. Even in the face of like no results, or negative results.

Just keep going. Yeah, I didn't, I became. It's the same mindset you have in the gym, you just keep going if you don't see it. So that's the attitude I'm taking now towards standup. Like I'm not concerned with whether a night goes well, or poorly, or whatever, because if I focus on how it goes, then I'm susceptible to not wanting to do it

if it goes poorly. I just don't give a shit. I go to the gym. I'm curious, not wanting to do it if it goes poorly. I just don't give a shit. I go to the gym. I'm curious, what happened to the guy who was growing besides you? He stopped? No, he's still going, he's just doing like, I put my face on my account when I had 30,000 followers

and I lost 500 and it hurt. And then I did. Why? What do you think that is? They thought he was black. They don't wanna see you. And they thought he was a white kid. You two guys look like you could

start a hate group together. Yeah. We can talk about that. Yeah, you guys look like two blonde German kids. Yeah, you don't wanna see us two coming at you. No, you don't wanna see it. Yeah. It looks like if there was a movie,

American Christopher X, yeah, he would be the guy right behind you like holding a bat. Yeah, no shirt. Yeah, you don't wanna see that. So you put your face on, you lost 500 followers. Yeah, which hurt. And that just gave you more motivation

to go back into gym and get even fucking more jacked. I needed ripped her jaw, is what I thought. That's what it is, yeah. You need to hit fucking triceps. No, so those 500 people I said goodbye to and I was like you were never gonna stick around anyway and then I kept doing it once a month and I've done it once a month or so for the last three years,

but I started putting my face on the account so people understood that I am Tank Sinatra. And I'm a cute fucking kid. And you should think I'm cute, yeah, exactly. No, but you are a good looking guy, so why not, some of these other guys probably look like fucking rodents. You know, like, he's put together.

Well, the fact, he's really, he started putting himself on there early, right? he's put together. Well, the Fat Jew, he's really, he started putting himself on there early, right? Interesting looking, yeah, he's an interesting looking guy. And he got that bad rap because of stealing, but it's like nobody cares, even Fuck Jerry, when they got like, everyone's like, ban Fuck Jerry. It's like, nobody cares, the people are not going anywhere. Fuck Jerry's fine, Fat Jewish is fine.

Because those guys are kind kinda like content aggregators. They'll take a meme, this is actually an interesting conversation. That's why I want to have him on. But then Fat Jew will have some funny comment underneath that he writes, I think what happened was he was taking memes, and I don't think he was maliciously not crediting people,

I just think that it was a time in the internet where that hadn't happened yet. Where you gotta go like, hey man, if you take something, try to credit who it is. Somebody needs to be the fall guy. Yeah, what do you think about that? Well, I have mixed feelings. I shouldn't even say mixed.

I have over general good feelings about the fat Jewish. Because he helped me out a lot when I first started. He was the reason I hit 300,000 because for the first year he was tagging me once, twice, three times a week because I was sending him so much shit. It was actually me and this other guy. It was me and this other account that I said kind of like, you know, is wasting the opportunity. We both came up together under him, not intentionally. He just fucking started hooking us up. He just found you, found you,

he just found you organically. You were making the memes? I was making the memes, but I reached out to him and I said, because I saw him post something that I had just seen on Reddit, so I said, I'm on Reddit all the time, because I'm a lover of comedy. When I was young, I would look for the comedy records

in my dad's thing, I found Bill Cosby or whatever, and then I would listen to that, and then once TV was like, I got, whatever it was, the HBO or Cinemax or whatever, and I'd watch fucking late night comedy at 12 years old. So this was just another iteration of that, it was just smaller, more digestible, more available comedy on Reddit.

So I said, I'm doing this all day anyway, do you want me to do this this and then I'll send you shit and then you can do whatever else you're doing. And at the time he had more than he could handle. He goes, yeah, I could really use the help, I appreciate it. Which is weird because I know people who emailed him and he replied like, suck my dick,

you fucking piece of shit, I hope you die. Because he saw a genuineness in you because you're willing to do the work. That's like when I first met Yannick. For nothing. I messaged him, I said, I'll hold your equipment for you. Like, I just want to be a part of your thing, I'll bring your equipment to do the work. That's like when I first met Yannick. For nothing. I messaged him, I said, I'll hold your equipment for you. Like I just want to be a part of your thing. I'll bring your equipment to the next gig.

That's for you, you do the work. That's why he wrote back. Yeah. And he saw the memes, he probably liked a few, right? So I wasn't making memes at that time. So then I was still digging for content on different sources, Imgur, Reddit, whatever, Facebook. Wow, so he just went on a limb and said yeah.

He saw something that he liked. He saw some potential in you. My traps, I don't know. I get it, or maybe he's a Jew, you look like a German, it's like a little weird fantasy fetish he has. Yeah, that could be possible. Yeah, yeah. That happens sometimes.

So then, when I was digging one day, I couldn't find anything worth sending, and I captioned my own picture and that one fucking took off. And that was like the last time I ever reposted. Sometimes I'll repost friends or whatever because I want to like help people out but. Did you initially have a method on how to go viral

or you just fucking. Consistency. You just liked, no but I'm saying but like you just enjoyed it. I loved it. Yeah. I loved it. Yeah. I loved it. You like coming up with creative captions

for these memes. That gave me what you guys got originally, or like off the bat on stage. That gave me that, because I would post a meme that I made, and I would see it take off, then I'd see it reposted on this big page or that big page.

Then I would see it back on Reddit, which is where I originally came from, and I'm like, holy shit. I felt like a graffiti artist sitting in his building watching the train go by with his name on it. You know, I did one meme once and it exploded, but like, yeah, you have to put your name on it. I did this one, Derek Rose,

I made it when I had Two Point Lead. So it was a sports show that I had, and we did a meme, it was Derek Rose, I did his new sneakers, and his new sneaker was a boot, like when you break your foot, like that, like the medicine shoe, so he was holding that, because you know he always gets injured,

Derrick Rose, the basketball player, and it just was everywhere, millions and millions and millions of shares, but nobody knew where it came from, it just kind of, it gets out there. So how do you capture, how do you make sure it comes, like when people start sharing it, like the fat Jew before he started crediting, how do you make sure you get the credit

so it builds your following? Because it starts to go everywhere, uncredited. So there's only a certain amount of policing that's worth doing. It's not worth policing the third or fourth degree. You know what I mean? So if I post something and then somebody else reposts it, now I don't even care because what am I gonna get out of it?

But when I had 100,000, 150, whatever, couple hundred thousand followers, if somebody with five million followers reposted, that would give me a nice bum. So you would message them and say, hey man. Hey man, would you mind crediting me? Right, and wouldn't they usually do it? Yeah, almost every time.

Actually, I can't even think of one time where it didn't work out. I'm thinking of other times where people message me, because the main problem with memes is that I'm not using my own pictures, I'm using other people's pictures. So if someone. But the captions are yours though.

Of course, yeah. But if someone direct messages me and it's a picture that they took, sometimes people are dicks and I'll just take it down because I don't even want to give their name any shot. Will they like message you aggressively? Yeah, they'll say, hey, why the fuck did you steal my picture?

Like, okay, I'll take it down. Yeah. No problem. That's not how it is. The picture is weird, yeah. But sometimes people will go, hey, I took that picture, would you mind crediting me? Because people just want,

and I've said this a million times, I'll continue to say, people want to see their name in lights, period. Like when you go to a comedy club that you're headlining, you see your name on the marquee outside, that feels fucking good. That's the same thing. It's not the same thing,

because yours is like a little different, it's more earned and whatever, and people are going there to sit with you for an hour, but this is like that same desire. Well that's why at the end of every podcast, when you go to patreon.com slash Bay Ridge Boys and join the Maytriarchy, join the Cackle, we read your's why at the end of every podcast, when you go to patreon.com slash Bay Ridge Boys and join the May Trarchy, join the Cackle, we read your name out at the end of our podcast,

because it's cool. It's fun for us to read it, and it's fun for them to listen to it. You know Dale Carnegie is? No. He wrote a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People. Oh yeah, yeah of course.

One of his theses was like the most beautiful sound in any language to any person is their own name. Right. So if you say somebody's name to them, they don't even know that they're falling in love with you. Chris, you know what I'm saying Chris? Yeah. You know what I'm saying Chris?

Yeah. Chris is George from India. George. I'm falling in love with you. Yeah. What's your ethnic background, George? Very Irish. Irish.

Irish kid. And then German. You push it down. You push it down. Push the deal down. kid and push push down you push it down pushing down Feelings gotta go down. He's gotta go down. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Yeah, it's all out now. You grew up Catholic Yeah, I went to Catholic school just like this. Yeah Catholic high school Catholic college. I didn't go to Catholic high school I went to Catholic school from second to sixth grade. We got an old expression now that we know did you get got no Yeah We got an old expression now that we know. Did you get got? No, I didn't get got. They got you, yeah. Part of you a little disappointed because like, if you got got, it means you were a cute kid.

I was not a cute kid. I was a fat kid. Lucky kid. Oh, see, this is why you're musket. You were fat growing up. Yeah. When did you start getting big? Temporarily fat, jacked forever.

Yeah! Yes! Yeah, cause you are an inch-shaped fucking kid. How did you figure out how to monetize the page? Like how are you monetizing? So I had a job for a long time. Just for the record, I'm not making like that much money. I was making enough.

This is your career. This is my full time job. But that's fucking great. Yeah, it's very fulfilling and shocking. So I was selling fence for 10 years for a friend of mine who had a fence company out in Long Island. That is a very Long Island job. And it's a very tanks and outro thing to do. I sell fences Yeah, that's a very out on the island thing like I keep somebody in or out or both I got you all those companies that are on the end like hey you need windowsills

You know contacts that were out in Hicksville. Yeah, it's like yeah Yeah, if you need a fence, you know my boy. Yeah, we're out here and say ah sit Yeah, it's a call a lot of Hicksville construction companies. So I was selling fence and I was making money and I had free time and I was selling. It wasn't like I was fucking around. I was in between appointments. I'd look at my phone, I'd go home,

I'd eat lunch with my wife, see my kid. It was, I was ready to do that forever. Truly, I was not looking for anything else. You were living the Long Island dream in a way. I was. You still had on the order. Do an occasional cycle. I mean, that is the looking for anything else. You were living the Long Island dream in a way. I was. You still had on the order. Do an occasional cycle, I mean that is the fucking Long Island dream.

One permanent cycle, yeah. So I didn't take any ads until I hit, I think it was like a million, because the offers you get are, it wasn't worth it to me to intrude on my followers' experience. I know it sounds like fucking really annoying, but I wanted people to trust me

so that when I did do an ad, A, I got paid enough to justify it, B, they were like, okay, fine. So that doesn't do a lot of ads. We'll take the hit on this one. Yeah, I mean, it's like, yeah, well, this whole world, social media world, we were talking about it with Godfrey before,

it's like, so many of our peers are not embracing social media, they're saying, fuck that, I don't wanna do before, it's like, so many of our peers are not embracing social media, they're saying, fuck that, I don't wanna do that, it's like, you're just gonna get left in the dust. Like, your Instagram is somebody's television network now. It's like, people used to go home and watch whatever TV show, now they check your Instagram for content. You know, so, it's just the new world.

Yeah, a lot of people are slow, it's like when you have such a shift so quick, a lot of people are slow to accept it because for some reason it's just, I think that's just how evolution works. There's some people who adapt to change quick, and then there's some people who just are slower. For whatever reason, they just kind of have a foot in both. There's people who don't accept it,

and then there's people who have a foot in both worlds that slows them down, and then there's people who just jump towards it and embrace it completely, and those are the people that excel. And then the other people get left behind because we got a finite amount of time here. Well, it depends on how they're doing.

If they don't need to do it, then they might think they can get away without doing it. But that's only right now. That's definitely not the case in three years, and it's 100% hand to God not the case in five years. So although you're getting booked right now and you're doing okay and you're making money and whatever, some guy right now is starting to do comedy.

I did the reverse. I built my platform first. Now I'm starting to do comedy. That's like me, I had a kid first, and maybe I'll get married. I did the reverse, I built my platform first, now I'm starting to do comedy. That's like me, I had a kid first, and maybe I'll get married. I did it backwards too. I got Puerto Rican girl pregnant, had the baby, but I didn't get married.

But if we do get married, probably do it in her hallway. Just reverse everything. You could do it all in that mansion, you got them all living in Bay Ridge. Yeah, I got a couple of members of my kid's mom's family. I got an apartment for them, I bought an apartment for them, it's got a long hallway, and one of the relatives recently a couple of weeks ago got married in the hallway They walked down the aisle in the hallway and they had the reception in the living room. It's what it is

Yeah, that's a classy place. That's classy. Yeah, the wedding cake was an Entenmann's It's interesting though to think about how how this, the entertainment business, because we're in the entertainment business. And how the entertainment business, much like the music business, is not really in the hands of executives anymore. Like an executive can't give you,

like you look at Hannah Stocking, Like an executive can't give you, like you look at like Hannah Stocking, you know like that, she's like an internet personality. Or like her friend Leila. I mean she's got like 20 million followers. That's like, in order to be able to reach 20 million people 10 years ago, you needed to have Disney money behind you, you needed to have Viacom money behind you, you needed to have Viacom money behind you,

you had to have such a marketing muscle behind you to push that out, that now she can just do for zero budget, it's almost hard to fathom for some people. Yeah, it's crazy. And she's touching people one way, like with her page touching them. It depends on how much she posts, but I would say probably at least once a day, whereas the most famous movie star in the world

is coming into people's radar once every three years. Right, right, it's interesting. For an hour, or whatever. So you're basically saying like the shift is happening where Hannah Stocking has more of an emotional connection and is more of a star to these people than like in a lot of ways soon George Clooney or an actor will. Like if Brad Pitt never comes out with a movie ever again,

I mean at this point he's not done one in a while, so he might be a bad example, but some people would be like, what's up with this guy, is he gonna make a movie? If Hannah stopped posting today, people would go fucking berserk. It's an interesting thing you're talking about. It's very true.

Because you can almost feel the switch happening just even with Rogan. It's like, Rogan's on for three hours every day. People, like the way people think of entertainment is even different now. It's like, that's more of how they're consuming entertainment. Because screens are so common now.

Listening to someone, getting to know someone, he's more of a star. What a star is to people is more that now and less like, oh, this guy's on a TV show. It's like I'm seeing this guy for 20-something minutes, acting in a role on a clip I maybe watch online, I'm not gonna tune in for that half hour, once a week, whereas Rogan, I'm listening to him for three hours

while I run, while I'm in the car. Like those are gonna become the new movie stars. Do you think that podcasts, Instagram, the Hannah Stockings, the Joe Rogans, the Tank Sinatra's are sort of the new stars? Wow, you put me in that group, huh? Yes we did. I mean look, you're a kid from Long Island, but you're doing good.

You gotta have a fence in business, but you know, you're still doing cycles. I think, again, cycle. Permanent. I think any time, here's where, the word famous is, I don't like it. I think it's, I don't know, people, if more people know you than you know, you're famous.

It's just a matter of to what degree. I went out to California to go see a good friend, I hate to name drop, but a good friend of mine, Mario Lopez, who's a very cute kid. Hell yeah. Super cute kid. He was the first celebrity. He was the first diversity hire on a TV show. Was he?

Well, I'm just saying. Yeah. I'm telling you, when Mario Lopez- He was the only swarthy kid at that- Oh, Saved by the Bell. Saved by the Bell. When AC Slater, when Saved by the belt like at the top like when he was like Mario Lopez I swear to God him and my aunt Eileen had the exact same haircut Same haircut same curls. That's like my aniline's haircut. I thought you were gonna get say some gay shit Yeah, the only difference is an Eileen likes to have a few new ports

Yeah, and that's just what it is and Eileen's gonna think tanks are not just very she has very handsome except the only difference is that Ann Eileen likes to have a few new ports. Yeah. And that's just what it is. Ann Eileen's going to think tanks are not just very, very handsome. Except the only knock against him is he's not Puerto Rican like my one true love Uncle Victor, who used to discipline me a few times if I was a little late bringing out the Lay's chips with his steak. Yeah. Because make no mistake, that was a fancy dinner if I gave him a steak with a slice of American cheese and a side of Lay's chips. And if I forgot the Lay's chips I was disciplined a little bit at the bottom of the neutrals and it's just what it is. And I copped myself with an occasional new poet.

And I love my nephew very much, he's done very good, he's got a friend in Park Slope. So uh. It's an inside skit we got going here. I like it. It's one of our skits. Yeah, it's his aunt. So, he, uh, yeah, I picked up on that. So, he was the first, like, celebrity to embrace me.

Mario Lopez. Yeah, he was. He, like, reached out directly. Nice guy. Yeah. Nice guy. Really nice guy. And this was, like, I was 35 at the time, so I wasn't, like, I was never a star-struck

kind of guy, but, to be honest, when I started making these memes, and people. Wait, you're 35 at the time, so I wasn't like, I was never a star-struck kind of guy, but be honest, when I started making these memes, and people- Wait, you were 35, how old are you now? I thought you were 30 years old. No, 38. Oh wow. Can you flex your pecs a little bit? Just do it for the camera, can you flex one?

Uh! Just fuck yeah, yeah cuz, yeah! Texanatra's also a kid who, like you especially, is probably not here for a long time, here for a good time. Because when you're on one permanent cycle, despite what you hear, your heart's gonna explode when you're 50.

I hope, man. I can only hope. We're all here for a short time. We're here for a good time, not a long time. What's the 50, 90 years? What's the difference? Doesn't matter. You got good cholesterol, good blood pressure?

Yeah, I'm healthy. Thank God. I think blood pressure is like 210 over 140 That's nice. Yeah, cholesterol is about 400. It's supposed to get higher, right? Yeah. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's good. You're aging, right? So sorry So he we went out to California to go see him because he invited us out there We went to his show and he had somebody on the show and this was at a time where I was like getting recognized a little Bit here or there like at the, or this was like local shit.

People would find out, oh, that's a guy with fucking the meme page or whatever. And he had somebody on the show, and I expected, I'm gonna go watch this guy do his thing, and I'm gonna be surrounded by massive fucking celebrities. I was pumped. And then I got there, and I had no idea who anybody was on the show.

And I was like, man, you really are only as famous as however many people know you that you don't know. And at that point, I stopped, not that I ever cared about fame, but at that point I really stopped caring. And all I wanted to do was reach more people that didn't know me one way every day. I wanted to have a one-way relationship

with as many people as possible. Expand the audience. Yeah, but's it. But isn't that fame? Yes. So you're saying you didn't care about fame, but you pursued more fame. I pursued greater reach, which is probably the only reason

I would ever want to be famous in the first place. I don't like it, you know, getting recognized, you guys get recognized. Well, it seems like mainstream fame is down to like 10 people now. Yeah, yeah. It's like Matt Damon level down to like 10 people now. It's like Matt Damon level. If you're not Matt Damon level,

you're niche famous to some extent. Well I was just with Sal Vulcano from the Impractical Jokers. He's famous. Like the Impractical Jokers are famous. They're famous, famous, famous. And it's not fun. I'm telling you, it's not fun.

Like people attacking you, yelling at you, like animals coming out. I would have thought somebody coming up to me, knowing who I was that I didn't know, would have felt like fucking orgasm. Yeah, it really, at the very best, it's like nice. At the very worst, it's like, I've never had an aggressive person.

I've had people get weird though. Because I'm still an internet guy, so people still are like, I don't know if I should, is it weird that I know from the internet? No, it's not. I put myself on the internet every fucking day for you to know. For you, yeah.

I've experienced full blown love fandom with my character, Morisa, full blown. Where they go crazy. And it's like at the beginning, it's nice. At the beginning, you're like, it's a recognition of I did something that people respond to and like. But then it gets old.

It gets, it's like anything else becomes trait. Where like, people are like touching you, grabbing you. Like you know, you're not a person. You're an object of their effect. You belong to them. They feel like they have some ownership of you. Because they've been absorbing you for so long in their own way. You're not you belong to them. They feel like they have some ownership of you. Because they've been absorbing you for so long in their own way.

You're not a person to them. You're like, and I've seen that look in their eyes when you start trying to say something real, they're not even registering it because they're just thinking about the emotional connection, the emotional thing you did for them. You're an object. And I think that's what really is problematic about it

because when you see Matt Damon on the street, you're not thinking about Matt Damon's life or him as a person. You're like, I want a picture of you for me. Yes, for me. You're an object that I wanna put on my phone for people to see me with. So that starts to get a little cumbersome.

And I remember when I was opening for burr Once he told me because he he didn't go out at the end of the show and I only opened for him once You know and now I know him but at the time I was like and I asked him I was like I'm you know He was like one time and he told me about one person who just like made it real weird because he told a joke And it was a woman and she kind of like starts great And he's like I just don't go out anymore, and that was it Yeah, cuz it was like one woman made it about her It's like you did this one thing over there and she made like a fucking scene and blah blah blah blah blah And he's like, you know, you're going lady this the show wasn't for you. Yeah, like you're you're how

Like you know what I mean? Yeah, what why are you thinking that? I need to do something for you Yeah, you came to see me if you didn't like it, go fuck yourself. What did you wait around to tell me you didn't like it? But that's kinda how people view you when you're an entertainer. It's like they love you and then look at, when they stop loving you, look what they do to you.

They fucking beat the shit out of you. Like on the way down, just like. They love to hit. They fuck, because you don't exist as a person. So it's like they build you up because of how you, and then they beat the shit out of you on the way down and ruin you and you become like a. It's not a real connection.

It's a one way street that you're not driving down. You're at the end of the street and they keep coming down to you. So when you go out and like say what's up, they're like, oh, what the fuck go out and like say what's up? They're like oh what the fuck what happened? Yeah, what's happening here? It's not it's it's nice that um it's at the it's like Meeting your your wife's or your wife. I guess you'd know everybody, but your girlfriend's friend, and they're like oh, I've heard a lot about you Yeah, that's what it is. It's fucking the same feeling do you think speaking of wives

Do you think your wife what we should have told her because she probably wants to ask him some macronutrient, micronutrient questions. Yeah, she a meathead? Do you weigh your food? My wife's from out on the island, she's from Elville, and she weighs her food. And she's jacked up. Yeah, she's jacked up, she goes to the gym a lot.

Where does she go? Six meals a day. Well, she goes, she lives with me in Brooklyn now, so she goes to New York Sports Club. But when she's out there on the island, I think she's got her choices. I think she could go out to Gold's. Yeah. Or she goes to Bev's? Yeah, she goes to New York Sports Club. But when she's out there on the island, I think she's got her choices. I think she could go out to Gold's. Yeah, I think she could.

Go to Bev's? Yeah, she could go to Bev's. I mean, she's got a couple choices. She got a couple options. I tell you what, her key chain has got a lot of fucking fobs on it. So she's a member of like six, seven gyms. When's the last time you ate, cuz?

Grilled chicken and broccoli, four times a day. No, I'm actually not eating that much recently. I'm like not eating for a large portion of the day, intermittent fasting, because that's the only way I can fucking restrict my calories. How many of your meals are powder form? One. One powder form.

Is intermittent fasting, you'll get fucking ripped on that quick, right? Trying, yeah. So you don't start eating till what? Three o'clock in the afternoon, four o'clock in the afternoon? I did cardio this morning, so I had a little bag of, by the way, salt and vinegar almonds if you never had them.

No. I can't because I get cankersores in my mouth. From salt? No, I just always got a cankersore. I just always got a cankersore lurking, so I try not to do any salt or vin. So what are you saying? Our whole goal of this podcast is to give the other podcast pink eye. Yeah.

When they come in to record. Yeah. It must have happened a couple times. You did some cardio. I did, yeah, I did cardio. I did some salt and vin almonds. I don't know, I'm pretty copying you now. But anyway, it was, and that was at 12 o'clock and I haven't eaten anything since.

That's why I went to go get something to eat, but I didn't eat it because Godfrey was here and we started fucking knocking it up. And he tried to steal your shit. Yeah, he did. What are you going to eat for dinner? And what are you going blow out tomorrow, tries? I'm not gonna, no, I'm gonna be in the city all day tomorrow, so I'm not gonna.

But Julie, if you're gonna eat something, you need a nice piece of salmon or grilled chicken, something lean with veggies. I probably should, but I won't. What do you eat? I probably do, when I stay over in the city on Monday nights, I usually order an omelet with bacon, tomato, and American cheese.

Comes with home fries and then rye toast. And you eat that. That's what's nice about not eating all day. When you eat, you can eat something that tastes decent. I'm not getting a cheeseburger, but I mean I could if I wanted to. But as long as you got your water intake, you always make sure you drink enough water.

Yeah, my wife just carries water around all day. She always carries water. This is like 20 times a day. It was like Christmas I went to 7-eleven the guy goes those are two for one. I was like are you fucking kidding me? Yeah, is you only drink core water? No, I like core and essential I was on a pulse ring truly sucks. Stop drinking it. You being serious. Yeah, what's the reason? Is it all water just water? No So I had a filter put on my house for like the whole house because the water where I live sucks

Right smells like a pool smells like a pool in a gym. I got a good filter. Is that good? The British can't keep up, but you live in a house Brooklyn or an apartment Yeah, you can't do anything there just dug your hand in your in your pants. Yeah, and just did you ball? So he's been thinking all about yes 30 kid No fumes. You will not be shaking your hand. So,

I'm gonna kiss you right in the lips, you fucking nuts. Get my nuts. So, I had the thing put on and I just wanted to test it. I went on Amazon, I got a pH test thing. So I tested the water coming out of my faucet now and it was good. It was like eight, eight and a half pH. It was very alkaline, very good.

I think nine is the max. So then the guy told me, because I was drinking Poland Spring water for years, I had one of those things in my house, the cooler, like a fucking office. Me and my wife would sit around and talk by it. No, I'm just kidding, we don't talk. So I would drink that water and he goes,

that's very acidic, you shouldn't drink it. I was like, all right, whatever. Like in my mind, I'm like, I'm getting the filter anyway, you don't need to talk shit about my water that I've been drinking for five years. So I tested it and it was fucking like a three. What happens to you after drinking all that acidic water? I don't know, I just feel better.

Like I was very tired for years. I napped every day for like five years, fucking exhausted. That could be me, that could be my size, that could be a lot of different things right? But but now you don't anymore no Since I got that filter Yes when you're like so

If you have garbage water coming out of your faucet It's also coming out of the shower head and when it's steamy you're breathing it in and it's going in through your skin like you're fucking Getting assaulted by shit water right in the shower right the whole time right so once I changed that, I mean, everybody started feeling better. It's bad out there. And Spittown is not good water. Spittown Water Authority, if you hear this, get your fucking act together. Yeah, you're going to get cracked open and cleaned out. And I don't think there's any other podcast on the planet where you would get that much

information on water right there. We really fucking broke it down. I don't think there's... I would say... I didn't know that all water wasn't think there's, I would say. I didn't know that all water wasn't water. Yeah, same with me, I just thought if it's water, it's water, it's good for you. All, I don't, there might be, going on right now,

20,000, 30,000 podcasts happening simultaneously, not one of them shouted out the Smithtown water department. No, not one. No. I mean, that's a specific shot out as you can get. That's a Long Island thing to say you're Smithtown Warden. Yeah.

Yeah, all right, yo, Tank, you're a fucking good kid. Yo, Tank's got good, stable energy, and I'm not sure if that's because he's a stable kid or because he's coming on the heels of Godfrey and it's just putting those two together, anyone seems stable. No, Tank is good, Tank is like, you're built to talk long,

you're... You also got good energy, I like it. You got very good energy, you guys do. It's sustainable, I like it. And you got good energy. What happened? It's just flexing.

Are we done? Yeah, what, you wanna keep going? No, I don't know, I have no idea. How long have we been going? I don't even know where we started. 45 minutes. Wanna keep going? No, I mean 45, we go 45 in one hour.

That's true. We can do whatever. That's what we normally do, so I just do so I just want to take up too much of your time I just wanted to know one thing from tank in this new era Yeah in this new era because I always thought about this because I just got married. I'm gonna have a Chris has a kid I'm gonna have a kid soon. You got kids or kids kids kids Yeah, is it what is it weird for the kids to be like what's your dad do when you go to dad? When you go to when you when you come in for father and they're like, he's a fighter.

Well, we're in Long Island, so he's like, he's got a fancy business. He puts the dryers in apartment buildings. He's got that business. I should be doing something like that for sure. And then he goes, he's my dad. You go, I make memes. So my stepdaughter's 12.

Shout out to Liana. Shout out Liana. Shout out to the Smithtown Water Department. Shout out to Smith. Yeah. It's gonna be weird when I have my first parent and they put the more recent video on and this is what my dad does and they go,

say that's it, I'm like, does that. Cause we're gonna make t-shirts that say Smithtown Warden Department. Smithtown Warden Department. I'll wear them. I'll find out what the guy's name is and we'll get his name, like a jersey. Yeah, all right, so yeah. We're just gonna have to shout that out on every podcast now.

Yeah, shout it out. Tell them what it's about. So just recently, her whole school found out that I have this big meme account and it's been a bit of a zoo for her, I think. Really? Yeah, which is good. My nieces fucking started flexing it right away. Soon as it happened, they were like, guess who my fucking uncle is Yeah, thanks, and you have and how old your youngest? One what oh yeah, he doesn't know yet. Yeah, he doesn't even know what to fucking me man

He's an idiot. Yeah, then I have a six-year-old who knows what tanks good news is but doesn't really care. I'm his dad Right. I mean so like he doesn't care one of the best things that happened to me during this whole thing was when ABC Nightline did a piece on my life. Like it was like, holy shit, I made it, I'm good. Like I've done everything I can do here. Felt so accomplished, nobody stayed up to watch it with me. Not even my wife, because it was on at like 11.30.

She wasn't watching it. And more people are sharing your memes than watching ABC News. But it was still a big deal. You did more for them than they did for you probably. Maybe, maybe. But when everyone woke up the next morning, I had a DVR ready to go, locked and loaded.

And I said, do you guys wanna watch me on TV? I told my son, I said, do you wanna see daddy on TV? And he said no. No, honey. No hesitation at all. He wants to watch you watch him play video games. Yeah. That's what he wants.

Wait, do you know that that's a thing or no? Oh yeah, of course, he wants wait. Do you know that that's a thing or no? Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, do you know that I talk about that or no? Oh, no. Oh man. Why what do you? So I have in my stand-up I talk about my son who was typical six-year-old he loves his iPad I don't mind that I just don't like what he does on it So he like watches another kid play with toys that he fucking has. Right. You know that that's the thing, right?

That's the thing, yeah, we know that that's the thing. It's wild. And Ryan, Ryan is like the kingpin of the whole fucking industry. Right. You know who Ryan is? Is he the one with the pink hair? Ryan's toy, no, Ryan's toy review. So Ryan is a...

Oh, this is the kid. He's a little kid, Ryan. Ryan is a seven-year-old Asian boy who, who seven-year-old Eastern Heming? Yeah, and I my son bro. This is actually a true story. This is all in my stand-up It's like one of my favorite things to talk about cuz yeah, sir. My son watches him so much We went on public with we were at the mall and my son goes. Oh my god, dad It's Ryan and there was a Asian family there. Yeah, and I was like, no, no, no, that's fine Oh fuck dude, you can't. I already look like a Nazi, you can't be doing race as shit.

So the punch line is that I didn't understand how we could get so much joy out of watching somebody else do something he could easily do until I realized how much porn I've looked at. And then I was like, all right, I totally get it. Yeah, it's amazing. We live in an era where people are watching other people do things.

Do things. Like video, that video game, like Twitch is like, there's probably more people. It's fucking crazy. It's actually insane when I found out the statistic that more people tune in for the video games competitions than the Super Bowl. There's more people watching those competitions.

Like the kids now, they're gonna be just different types of people. There's just like, they're just, we're still going like, Jennifer Aniston's over there, they're like, yeah, but that's Keith Topal. He's the number one, he's the number one fucking, whatever video game player. Yeah, yeah.

Number one toy opener, yeah, the unboxing shit is what started it. I know. I don't understand, but I don't have to understand. The kids, Yeah, the unboxing shit is what started it. I know I don't understand but They're obsessed with it. They love it. I mean, I I don't know It's like that jet. I'm just a generation removed from it I see my kids do it, but I don't you know, I just don't care It doesn't excite me But I never want his biological daughter and her stepbrother and a step brother and then whoever my baby

Mama's sisters or family members want to bring over there all my kids. I pay for their schools. Yeah, but there's one white person in that family Yeah, oh Yeah Who was that guy thanks for not so you had on there he put to he was cute It's a Chris you got it's a lot to introduce me to some of your friends. Cause listen, Jasmine told me that you had somebody, he had a big Instagram following and he also is living out there in Long Island. So you need to put me to him, to his number, directly message him on. Cause also I got a couple of kids too that I need him to take care of.

That's what it is. That's what it is. I need to live inside y'all. I need to go to church on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Hi, thanks to Nacho. How you doing? I heard you're on the History, HiHina podcast. Listen, my sister's cousin's friend's cousin's sister is the one that has a baby with Chris. So if you could also put me to, you want to go to Applebee's for dinner? Let's talk. Let me get a pina colada too, that's it. You're already married though, but yeah. You're a married kid.

Yeah. Yeah. Is your wife white? Of course, he's from out there in the island. His wife is a nurse, he's a teacher. No, she's a nurse, she's a teacher. What does she watch? She's a nurse, she's a teacher.

Holy shit. Does she go to King Collin? Is she in the Saturday? Does she go to King Collin? Does she go to the Saturday? Does she go to the food shop at King Collin Saturdays or Sundays? Is her name Colleen? No, no, it's Jessica. Jessica, but she's a substitute teacher? What does she do? This is funny. Or is she a nurse?

How many? Do a lot of people listen to this podcast? Yeah, we got a big following. Really? Yeah, we're doing good. Fuck, I can't tell this story then. No, we're kidding. We got nobody. Small, small. We're small. Oh, we're doing good. Fuck, I can't tell this story then. No, we're kidding, we got nobody. Small, small, we're small. Oh, you're small now.

You can't do that. You can't say I got a story and then I can't tell it, because now you got to tell it. Oh man, whatever. We can cackle out her name if you want. No, you're gonna have to cackle this out though. So her grandfather died recently, right? Yeah. Your wife?

My wife's grandfather died. Your wife's grandfather, okay. I only met him once. Okay. Never met him. His name's Max, nice. I only met him once. Okay. Never met him. His name's Max, nice guy, 96. Wow, good luck. Spry till the day he fucking, he got pneumonia and like two weeks later he was gone.

Yeah, that's what happens. So we went to his funeral and my wife's uncle was giving the eulogy talking about how, you know, he took care of his daughters because his wife took her own life when she was whatever in the fucking 1950, whoever knows when it was, and he stepped up and he took care of everybody. Before that he was he was a brave soldier in World War Two and he fought for his country and yada yada and like, oh, I'm listening. I'm like, he's from Germany. I think he's from Germany. So I say to my wife I'm like, would you I mean, were you going to tell me that your grandfather is a Nazi during the funeral? So she goes, no, no no he's not a Nazi like the two sentences later the uncle goes

He was even awarded the Iron Cross for his bravery. He was a Nazi Just he was a Nazi. Yeah Did Jess not know I don't think she knew because he was like so imagine this I read this book conversations with God a long Time ago and in it he talks about Hitler. I'm making myself look like a fucking raging Nazi Don't worry. It happens a lot on this podcast what it is. Yeah, but in the you could share your opinions overly We probably share some of the same just get the way Revved up. Yeah. Yeah, let's just be honest. Let's go get fucking trouble to start building that wall

Way song she ain't guys like you at the wall Get out well, you know, he's from song seeing from Ridgewood Queen. So that's a big German Neighborhood is a lot of I didn't know if they lived across the street from me. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, so in conversations with God, he talks about shit, you know people will ask like should Hitler be in hell Yes, like of course, yes, he was evil. But he didn't do it alone. People rallied up around him because he fucking said something that these people wanted to hear.

Once I heard that, I was like, oh, we're all at fault for everything. It's not Kim Kardashian's fault that she's famous. It's our fucking fault. Of course, and that's why you hate her so much, because you hate yourself for liking it. Maybe. I mean, I don't hate her. I don't really watch her, but I know that like

people get pissed that she exists and it's like stop fucking tuning into her television show and liking her Instagram posts and being obsessed with her and maybe she'll go away. Oh yeah, no I don't hate her either, but I think we all understand what you just said with the truth of it all. Yeah, yeah.

But a lot of people don't want, like all that work you're doing, the books you're reading, all that, most people, we talk about it all the time, they don't want to do the work on themselves. They don't want to do the work. They just want to be mad and not really ever figure out why they're mad, they just want to act mad.

And well, they're angry inside, so they look at things outside to point the finger at, so they go, if someone says, why are you mad? They go, oh, I'm mad because of this. But really, they only picked up on that thing because they're pissed. Of course. I don't notice shit like that, but the point of that was

I doubt he was a fucking Nazi. He probably just happened to live in the country and was like, all right, I gotta go fight in this war now. Well, towards the end of the war, towards the end of World War II, it was gun to your head. You had no choice. You had to fight for the Nazi armor, you'd be thrown in the concentration camp.

Yeah, because he was, from what I understand, a fucking sweet guy. I'm sure he was. Didn't hate anybody. Yeah, I'm sure he was, but he just probably probably was like you know what a couple of Jews gotta go. Also, well here's the thing, weisangxian. This is actually very fascinating. Just kidding. This is fascinating stuff because in the 30s there was a lot of German Americans who identified and supported the Nazis. They sold out MSG. Yeah, and well, in Long Island specifically, there was a place called Camp Siegfried, which was a summer camp that taught Nazi ideology,

and it was located in Japank, New York. Yeah. Is that, you know what it is? That sounds about right. Yeah, and it was owned by German American Bund, an American Nazi organization devoted to promoting a favorable view of Nazi Germany and was operated by the German American Settlement League and

It was it was just a regular camp and then I guess after like the 40s Like all those people had to just like hide all that stuff Oh, yeah Like if you had any Nazi flags or anything you just had to have a big Bonfire in your backyard in Long Island and burn all that stuff Yes, yeah, because I think a lot of people at the beginning, they didn't know about all the, you know, they didn't probably know what was going on.

Starts out like anything else. I'm gonna make you guys money, you're hungry, I'm gonna get you food. Yeah, then you're like, oh shit. I'm gonna keep these illegals out. I'm gonna fuck, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and then it gets weird. And then it's, all of a sudden, before you know it,

it's 2019 and Donald Trump is doing the same thing. Yeah, because there was a sudden, before you know it, it's 2019 and Donald Trump is doing the same thing. There was a lot of German, Germanic, people with German roots. My last name is German. Same with him. What's your, Koerner, your mom's name, right? Koerner is the maiden name.

K-O-E, yeah, that's German as fuck. My last name is Resch, R-E-S-C-H. There's a town in Germany called resh a beer Yeah, it's like a legit but nobody can crash crash. Yeah people say care in there Care in there. Yeah, they probably yeah, they don't really identify much with their German roots anymore Chris care now Just gonna alright buddy. Yeah, listen. Thank you so much great.. It's fucking great. Tank.senatra, Tank's Good News. Tank's Good News, Think Tank podcast. Think Tank podcast on Getty Jo Network.

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