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.
I'm not disagreeing about Franzese.
Sammy for the most part is just rehashing stuff from his book and other little side notes. Recent ones seem a lot less interesting than the early ones. I didn't watch any for a few months in the middle.
I'm just surprised anyone could be shocked that it's a hustle and not something out of the goodness of his heart done for a greater good or something.
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