Special Edition: Good News w/ Tank Sinatra
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On this Christmas Day, we are focusing on good news. George Resch is joining me. You may know him as Tank Sinatra on Instagram and the guy behind the well-known account, "Tank's Good News."
Today you'll learn a little more about why he started the page and the positive impact he hopes to make on the world. We'll also reflect back on some of his most memorable good news stories of 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, December 25th, and on this Christmas day, we are focusing on Good News. |
| 0:05.8 | George Rush is joining me. You may know him as Tank Sinatra on Instagram and the guy behind |
| 0:10.0 | the well-known account, Tanks Good News. Today, you'll learn a little more about why he started |
| 0:14.4 | that page and the positive impact he hopes to make on the world. We'll also reflect back |
| 0:18.7 | on some of his most memorable, good news stories of 2021. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, |
| 0:27.4 | when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in |
| 0:31.2 | the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes, |
| 0:35.2 | where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Air Commandy, it's now time for today's |
| 0:40.0 | Special Edition Saturday. Welcome to The Newsworthy. I first have to ask you if I should be calling you |
| 0:47.7 | by Tank Sinatra, your nickname, or your real name. My real name is George, but I got my tank most of |
| 0:53.7 | the time. Eventually, anyway, usually lands on tank. Where did Tanks Sinatra come from? |
| 0:58.7 | I'm big and I have blue eyes and I'm from New York, and that was it. Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, |
| 1:03.5 | it's just obviously one of the most recognizable names in entertainment, period, but yeah, it was |
| 1:09.2 | just a cute nickname that I came up with that stuck. So how did you get started with Tank's Good News? |
| 1:14.8 | What inspired you? I remember being a little kid and my dad watching the news and it was like |
| 1:19.6 | rape, kidnap, murder, fire, destruction, and then have a great night. And somehow go to sleep |
| 1:26.0 | tonight knowing that all this bad stuff happened in your area. And it was like, I just didn't understand |
| 1:30.4 | why they would spend all that effort and time telling us the bad stuff that happened. I just |
| 1:34.7 | felt like it was disingenuous to tell only the bad things, but it was specifically a flash of |
| 1:40.4 | inspiration during Hurricane Harvey. That was one of the most, you know, aside from Hurricane Katrina, |
| 1:45.6 | one of the most destructive storms I think the country has seen, at least in recent memory, |
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