With Karl and Mark as the primary Mettler's DJs, Will usually just worked the slow nights or filled in when one of those two couldn't make it. A fourth tier DJ named Rito was briefly there when I started. He didn't get along with a lot of the staff. I don’t know the details of that situation. When Mettler's was down to three DJs, they began the search for a new fourth.

Hans Tinsley was an unattractive, balding man in his late twenties. He often hung out at Mettler's. He purchased a lap dance from me when I first started working there. He was disappointed that I would not give him more physical contact during the dance. He was subsequently mean to me in the misogynist way that horny, sexually deprived STEM majors are to women who they feel threatened by. Hans didn’t spend a lot of money while he was in Mettler’s. He mostly expected the women to use their time and energy to give him free attention.

As a high-IQ STEM guy, Hans used his fast functioning brain to talk down to me, attempt to point out how stupid he thought I was, and use every interaction he had with me as a way to prop up his own superiority. Interacting with him was like talking to a very pretentious, narcissistic, middle school aged savant honors student who has low self esteem. It was disturbing to encounter a man in his late twenties like that who spent most of his leisure time in the strip club where I worked. But, you'll find a lot of people who behave that way in college towns. I often wondered why Hans sat in Mettler's for hours upon hours, most days of the week. I suspected that he might've been a drug dealer, with Mettler's as his main place to sell, but I have no evidence of that. Otherwise, he was just a fucking loser with no social life outside of Mettler's.

I found Hans's facebook while I worked at Mettler's. He was friends with some of the dancers. The posts are hidden now, but in 2017, he had a bunch of public posts that he wrote during high school. They were about what a social misfit he was, lusting after cheerleaders, sitting on the bleachers by himself and generally being a misanthropic, misogynist, deprived sociopath. Some of his posts described cheerleaders with misogynist language. Sometimes people like this call themselves “introverts,” but what I have found is that introverts from academia are actually just ugly unwanted misanthropes. The psychology of Hans is very text book and garden variety.

The dancers who Hans hung out with were generally in the 18-22 year old age range. I believe Hans was stunted socially, and was making up for lost time. Sometimes he would encourage dancers not to talk to me. One time I walked past him speaking with a dancer about me and overheard him say,

“Smack a bitch.”

I didn't tell anyone about it at the time, because I had a lot of other issues to deal with. I tried to marginalize Hans's almost constant presence as best I could. Whatever his connections were to Mettler's, eventually they let him become their fourth DJ. I was super bummed when this happened. Hans didn't seem to have any previous DJ experience or know how to smoothly work the equipment. Sometimes he would play songs that were not on my playlist, or play newer versions of the songs that were covered by newer artists. I did not like any of this. When I confronted him about it, he told me that he was bored with my old songs and wanted to liven things up. I was a spectacular performer at Mettler’s, sold more than most people, and have been in the industry since 2006. I didn’t need Hans Tinsley to reconfigure my presentation.

To hide his bald spots, Hans used to wear a knit cap or other head coverings. When he became the fourth DJ, people sometimes mistook him for Karl Bindig's son. They are both Germanic, glasses-clad balding men of similar bone structure, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Recent internet evidence has shown that Hans started shaving his head, sans knit cap, and owning that shit:

I googled him while writing this, to see that he has been dabbling in politics. On paper we seem to agree on things, but I still wouldn't vote for him. I’d rather he die of coronavirus than hold any political power.