He has 1700 paying members on Patreon shelling out $5 or $14.50 a month for monthly Q&A's and access to merchandise you can purchase. That's all good, I would never pay myself, well maybe a t-shirt, unless I was doing some research and was able to ask him some questions. Rat or not, Sammy is an eyewitness to history, the kind of eyewitness who got blood on his clothes. His podcasts are entertaining and call to mind life in the neighborhood even if was across town, there were a lot of similar neighborhoods back in the day.