This is the American Greek podcast presented by CNBC, I'm Stacey Kooch.

In this episode of American Green,

Mike, the situation Sorrentino,

makes his mark starting in the notoriously over-the-top reality TV show,

Jersey Shore, virtually overnight.

He morphs from muscle-head to millionaire.

He was showing me like, oh, I got this frory.

I was buying stuff, buying lots of stuff.

He was like, oh, a rap star all of a sudden.

Sorrentino's character is a walking hyperbole,

100% bad boy.

Sometimes when I think of Jersey Shore,

I remember it as an animated show,

because it had a lot of that aesthetic to it.

But when Sorrentino applies that reality TV swagger to real life

and fails to pay taxes on nearly nine million dollars of income,

much of it in cash,

the situation is real.

Real bad.

Well, in 2011,

I could tell you that he did not file a tax return at all.

There's nothing wrong with being paid in cash.

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