Getting "Tanked" with Wayde King & Brett Raymer

You take your top off, we'll go get Manny Paddies. Love it. Rumours could fly. Who knows? Yeah.

I'm Oliver Travina here at the Young Hollywood Studio with Brett Raymer from Way Kings and you are acrylic tank manufacturing.

Yes, we are.

Which you've even got on your t-shirts in case anyone doesn't recognise you from the faces.

Absolutely.

And you bought me in a t-shirt today. That was very nice. Thank you. You did. Where is it then?

Right there, I'll give you mine when I'm done.

Oh, cool. Right. He's gonna undress for us on camera as well. How did this all start from building fish tanks to now being on TV?

Cuz we used to come to our office all the time. He'd be like, man, you guys are such great characters, you guys are so funny. We had a little problem with a nice big stingray in the bottom of the tank. He wouldn't move. I wasn't touching this stingray. Brett was a little scared of him. So I'm shaking, bubbling a little extra. Those heavy bubbles with gas. That's if the fish passed out. And I watched a lot of TV and I see what's out there and I'm like, dude, we could be on TV. And he was like, "All right, well you don't really work that much, so why don't you try to get us on TV?" Five years later, I did it.

What show in particular was you watching when you said, we could do this?

I watched Orange County Choppers. That actually was the show. It wasn't the Hills.

No, it wasn't the Hills. Who comes up with the concepts or is it the client that says to you, I want this?

I have these crazy visions. Really, they just like, it comes to me like, you know, like as soon as I see something, bam, it just hits me. And I got to like, I'm the kind of guy if something comes, I can't hold it in. So I gotta like just spell it out even if the client's there. It drives them nuts, but at the end of the day, these guys gotta make me look good. So.

I have noticed you do drive Wayde nuts quite a bit on the show.

Yeah, well, he's my

Even off the show.

I was going to say it's a family business. It's gonna happen. That's it. He's more like my brother than my brother-in-law, so it's okay to drive him nuts. And now he's at all being a family on the show. Sometimes it's fun and sometimes it's tough, you know, we gotta run around, we gotta do things. He's home, he's lazy. Watching the football games really loud.

watches football every day. At all time, every day.

Quite an easy gig. I've noticed you when you're in the office quite a lot, the TV's on.

Well, yeah, I mean, of course. I work better that way.

Okay. Who haven't you built a tank for that you'd like to build a tank? If you could pick anyone.

I'd like to put a tank in the White House. That'd be pretty cool.

Shooing right up there, wouldn't it?

Yeah, that would be pretty cool. We're right to the top.

Yeah. We'll come to you when Young Hollywood get a fish tank. Let's put one in this. Let's put one in this. S- subtle plug, we've got a fish tank.

Right back here. Let's do it. Let's do it. Why not? Why not?

Now, when you put the fish in, I've noticed sometimes the sharks, which is my biggest fear, very scary. Has anyone been bitten?

You ready to do this? No worries. This is my first time diving in this big tank. There's some big sharks in there. Actually, where got bit once by a lemon shark. Uh, went to go pick it up.

Is a lemon shark, that doesn't even sound scary.

No, it it well, it is. It spits through it. It looks like, I actually believe it or not, looks like a mini great white. Right. When they're small. They really got some sharp teeth. And uh, we had had got it from a collector and Brett went to go put it in the tank. He went to go handle it. The shark kinda twitched and nipped his hand a little bit.

I'm a dog lover, but I'd never eat my dog. Do you eat still eat your fish? Correct. Yes. How that just, cuz I always think like I would never have my dog on a plate. I'd be thinking, oh, Georgie. But if you had a fish on a plate, does that not ever remind you of any fish you've ever met? Oh, that's Fred the fish. No, no. No guilt there.

Well, I don't know, what restaurant I check, you can order like a schnauzer sandwich.

Have you been to China?

No, I haven't.

Have you built tanks there yet?

Correct, we have.

And I noticed that obviously, I mean, there's such amazing jobs you do. But everyone's face, you like to see their face when they first see it. Right. It's like, ah. Have you ever had anyone that's like, Oh.

No. I I I hate to say that, but I'm really hoping that happens cuz it's just great TV.

And you've worked, you've had some interesting clients and you just actually mentioned Neil Patrick Harris was it?

Well, he's interested possibly in season two, but we're gonna do Tracy Morgan this season. Uh, we're gonna be work, we're doing a Kiss tank this season. We're actually Gene Simmons is gonna be there uh, for a Kiss mini golf course in Las Vegas. We got a lot of crazy, crazy concepts for season two, bigger and better than season one. We also have like a 35 foot long one for a casino. Which is pretty nice. A nail polish bottle. The nail polish bottle. And you're actually gonna be able to sit in front of it. It's for a salon. Brett goes to get his nails done, so. A little manny and pedy, you know.

Do you go and get manny pedys? I went and got one a couple weeks ago. You know. Cuz I do. I mean, I haven't had one for a little bit, you can tell.

Yeah, me too. But I always think that it's

Maybe after this we can go. I wouldn't have thought you would be like, guys, you want to go get a manny pedi? I mean, my treat. It's good. All right, then.

You take your top off, we'll go get manny pedys. Love it. Rumours could fly. Who knows? Yeah.

That's a little bit strange now. It's got a little bit strange.

Dude, what happened to the mermaids?

Listen, mate, who cares about the mermaids?

Dude, I thought mermaids had tails. Apparently, these wear fishnets.