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Speaker 1: You're the number one club on in America.

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Speaker 2: I think the thing that people in America don't realize

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Speaker 2: there's no money like the Black dollars. Dream used to

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Speaker 2: do eight thousand people all night. That's why Gilbert's party

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Speaker 2: was a million dollar party because we sold four hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand in bottle service tape.

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Speaker 1: Why did you even get into hospitality?

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Speaker 2: Did the Washington Hilton that's when they give the correspondence

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Speaker 2: then at a minimum ten thousand people, and they said,

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Speaker 2: you'll never.

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Speaker 1: Do a party here.

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Speaker 2: Gang. We couldn't get nobody out six seven in the morning.

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Speaker 2: How much would we bring average Friday night? There's one

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Speaker 2: point fifty a good Friday night, it's three fifty. But

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Speaker 2: I got artists. Screen was lit. But my problem with

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Speaker 2: Dream is that I was doing an artist every week.

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Speaker 1: I was dependent on the artists too. You said nobody

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Speaker 1: spends money like black people on night life. What about brunch?

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Speaker 2: The super Bowl party wasn't amazing, but the branch was

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and eighty people. This is the black dollars

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Speaker 2: and it's black accident. It's all the money, and I'm

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Speaker 2: up here and all my people down there.

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Speaker 1: It ain't right.

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Speaker 2: I'm bring and all my people along with me. When

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Speaker 2: I did the podcast with you all, I was telling

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Speaker 2: you probably the most impactful interview I've done in my career.

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Speaker 2: That's real, he wrote.

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Speaker 1: I heard a shot at Troy talk about the tax letters.

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Speaker 1: We talk about science.

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Speaker 3: When we talk in a language that is common to

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Speaker 3: the people that's from the communities that we grew up with.

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Speaker 1: You all are the bright spot, thank Rwerdship for Black Americans.

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Speaker 1: This is the knowledge that actually matters.

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Speaker 2: I plaud both of you for this, Saint.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it a country issue.

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Speaker 3: It's not an American issue, It's a world issue.

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Speaker 1: We tend to earn leisure, all right, gush, welcome back,

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Speaker 1: ey l. We are in DC and we at the

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Speaker 1: legendary Park on fourteenth. Yeah, and when we're a legend,

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Speaker 1: when we're a legend, actually is very red, actually being

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Speaker 1: establishment and talked to the owner of the establishment. And

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Speaker 1: that's actually what we're currently doing right now. Mark Barnes,

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Speaker 1: somebody who's a legend in the nightlife game. You know,

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Speaker 1: we have a mutual friend called Lou Talker.

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Speaker 2: So Tucker everybody knows. Everybody knows that Toli put it together.

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Speaker 1: But he also says something he said that you're the

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Speaker 1: number one club own in America.

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Speaker 4: So he was telling the truth is but you say

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Speaker 4: I've done the numbers, and I guess since you go

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Speaker 4: up against everybody else, there's taw group, which I applaud

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Speaker 4: them for what they've done.

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Speaker 2: But I think the thing that people in America don't

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Speaker 2: realize there's no money like the black doll, and this

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Speaker 2: is the black doll and it's black excellence.

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Speaker 1: That's the fair, except for people that don't know. We're

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Speaker 1: in the District of Columbia, DC. So part is a

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Speaker 1: fourth story with a patio in the back of establishment.

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Speaker 1: That's a restaurant, that's a club. You have brunch, it's like.

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Speaker 2: It's an event center.

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Speaker 1: It's an event center.

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Speaker 2: It's the whole week we got it's in the owner

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Speaker 2: of the Furst. Yeah. Two weeks after that, we got

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Speaker 2: what's the square at it?

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Speaker 1: For fifteen thousand square three fifteen thousand square foot establishment

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Speaker 1: and you and you own the real estates. I don't

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Speaker 1: you don't want to say, I don't, Okay, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't.

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Speaker 2: The guy wouldn't sell it, Okay, I wish I did. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And that is an important piece of people looking to

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Speaker 2: do something. But I think the location that I do

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Speaker 2: have has helped the situation. You know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: that if Park wasn't on this is fourteenth Street is

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Speaker 2: basically three ninety five ninety five south right dumps right

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Speaker 2: into this, So you couldn't get a better I'm coming.

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Speaker 1: Straight up location essentially located.

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Speaker 2: Located, I'm two blocks in the White House.

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Speaker 1: And before this you had Club Love. I got to

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Speaker 1: give the whole, the whole history. So club Love legendary,

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Speaker 1: legendary club dream. Club Love turned into club Dream, Dream

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Speaker 1: court Love. I only thin I Court.

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Speaker 2: Dream, I mean, and I guess there's things that is

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Speaker 2: really known for Gilbert Arena's birthday. But Dream was it

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Speaker 2: when when we decided to change to love because we

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Speaker 2: had already been through a million of some people, and

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Speaker 2: you know, it was it was just a lot. It

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Speaker 2: was a lot, and we became love and everybody all

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Speaker 2: to be dreamed to me, It'll be dreaming me forever.

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Speaker 2: Two years into love. It Oh, it's love. It's all love.

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Speaker 2: It's all love.

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Speaker 3: You left out the part I mean obviously, being located

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Speaker 3: so close to the amount of politicians that come in.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean concresional back Hall because is obviously held here.

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Speaker 3: But like there's nobody who hadn't been the No, that's

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Everybody close, everybody's been here, but.

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Speaker 1: I gotta paint the pictures of people that have not

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Speaker 1: been to DC. I got to really emphasize how much

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Speaker 1: the legacy from Park is legendary. But then the club

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Speaker 1: Dream Love Era.

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Speaker 2: Dream used to do eight thousand people a night.

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Speaker 1: I remember, I was dead, Like I said, I remember,

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Speaker 1: I used to go to school in Baltimore, so I

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Speaker 1: remember coming to Howard Holme, coming and coming to DC.

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Speaker 1: So you've been a fixture in the night life over

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Speaker 1: thirty years, Staple, Yes, right.

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Speaker 2: Thirty five years. Because before that I started by doing

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Speaker 2: other people's clubs and we weren't black people, weren't downtown,

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Speaker 2: but I couldn't get a night, so I got Happy Hours.

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Speaker 2: I said give me five to ten. You're not doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: And I would go into the white spots and I

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Speaker 2: I was doing more money from five to ten than

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Speaker 2: they were doing from ten to three. But my problem

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Speaker 2: was the nightlife business. Back then, they they thought that

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Speaker 2: they were the gods. I gots the bartenders, the security

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Speaker 2: was like, why are you're bartenders treating people like shit?

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Speaker 2: Why you're security roughing people off? Why your bathroom's dirty?

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Speaker 2: And they said, we want to see you do that

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Speaker 2: when you get a place. Well I did it in

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Speaker 1: First.

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Speaker 2: I bought my own bathroom attendant. I bought my bathroom,

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Speaker 2: I mean, my bartenders. I went to with my grill.

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Speaker 2: But at that point it was called Houston's. Everybody knows

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Speaker 2: Houston's has an amazing training program. I got a shout

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Speaker 2: out to them because I tried to model after with Hillstone,

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Speaker 2: again it always makes it so interesting to me that

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Speaker 2: so many things, like I think the greatest thing going

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Speaker 2: is Unreasonable Hospitality. It's a book that anybody in the

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Speaker 2: it explains. You can mess up a steak, you can

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Speaker 2: is how did they fix it and how did they

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Speaker 2: make you feel? And that's what the most important thing

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Speaker 2: is when you are in the hospitality business and people

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Speaker 2: that supportant? That's import It's important how to go out

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Speaker 2: when you're in New York. Where do you go? You

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Speaker 2: ain't gonna take your wife or anybody to a place

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Speaker 2: that you gotta go go get in the back of line, right.

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Speaker 2: The treatment is important.

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Speaker 1: The treatment, Hey come here, come on? Are you called from?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: On my way?

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Speaker 3: And that's what I told you as soon as we

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Speaker 3: back to love. She's like what I said, No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: you got mean. I'm sorry, we gotta go. After saying

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Speaker 3: we gotta go see Park. You gotta go to Park,

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Speaker 3: and she's like, wow. Number one, the maca chee is incredible.

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Speaker 3: You know, just on't need anybody's maca cheek. But I'm like,

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Speaker 3: the maca cheese is incredible. But the ambiance feeling black excellence,

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Speaker 3: seeing it, watching people how they conduct themselves into space,

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Speaker 3: and it's four floors. In every floor is a hundred

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I was like a five hundred.

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Speaker 3: It's like that's happening on a routine basis. So the

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Speaker 3: treatment is important, the ambiance is important, But.

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Speaker 2: How did you even get into hospitality? So when when

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Speaker 2: I'm number one by twofold of liquor selles and by

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Speaker 2: I used to be a lot of Republic Gardens, So yes,

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Speaker 2: calculus equation because it didn't make no difference. I didn't drink,

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Speaker 2: I ain't never tried to drug in my life, don't

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Speaker 2: it ain't me. I was the kid that my sisters

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Speaker 2: They were like, man, I can't shut this party that

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Speaker 3: The price to rent this write out, no, the price

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Speaker 2: It's one in someone else's establishment. But now it takes

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Speaker 2: Like there wasn't no TikTok. You know boot, you know

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Speaker 2: Now you want no, I don't. Well, yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: For any business, if you can get one person to

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Speaker 2: the money, let them make people want to come back.

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00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 2: It's anything. If I were a real estate if you

435
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 2: bring me two people, I'm gonna pay your house note.

436
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: They're gonna buy houses. It's the same concept. But I'm

437
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 2: gonna have my plumber together, my contractor together, my electrician together,

438
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 2: my RUFA together, my landscape person. So that you're going

439
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 2: to all use these people that are going to do perfect.

440
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: And the first thing you're gonna say is, oh, just

441
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 2: call Mark whatever it is you need for your house.

442
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: You want to buy a house. He gonna find the

443
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: lone person. He's gonna find everything for you. Who's going

444
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 2: to get you perfect. He gonna find them out. Fucker

445
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 2: that's gonna straighten your credit out. But so it's a

446
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 2: one stop shot. So who you're gonna call off the

447
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 2: real estate there shoot me. And all I need of

448
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: you to do is tell two people, and then those

449
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 2: two people tell four, then they tell eight, then they

450
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 2: tell sixteen, and you're thirty two. It's you're winning. You

451
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 2: can't handle your you can't handle it after thirty two weeks.

452
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 2: It's crazy money. But people they shortcut the bathroom's attorney.

453
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 2: They gonna save money on the cleaners. I shampooed my

454
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 2: carpet every night. You'll smell nothing in there, and people

455
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 2: gonna come to brunch if the stinks is uh, I

456
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing down in the kitchen. You know,

457
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 2: everybody says, oh my god, you can't have a restaurant

458
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 2: in DC without rats.

459
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:58,239
Speaker 1: You can.

460
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: You just gotta put ring camera behind your couches. You

461
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 2: got to know what's in your building. You got to

462
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 2: go after them. You can't have to ask for anything,

463
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 2: because if you do, before they tell two people that

464
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 2: you're good, they'll tell ten people that you're bad. So

465
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 2: five times quicker than you can go out, you will

466
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: come down. And that's what the challenge is with most people.

467
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 2: I'm doing.

468
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: That's the fact that's a good game, because that's like

469
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: the low multiplication referrals. Yeah, that's when I was a

470
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: financial advisor. I was always trying to get referral. That's

471
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: how I was taught.

472
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 2: That's it.

473
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: That's the easiest way to go.

474
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: Seek and all you got to do is be good

475
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 2: at your game. Pick up that phone. I hit people

476
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 2: all the time to say, oh, they don't pay me

477
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: enough to work on weekends or pick up my phone

478
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: when I'm on.

479
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 1: That's not for them.

480
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: That's for you. Anything you do when I ask somebody

481
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 2: to dress well or do something, that's for you. I

482
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: had a guy to come in here. I wuldn't even

483
00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,959
Speaker 2: take his interview. White got corny. Look at motherfuckers, I was,

484
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: I did not take it. I sent another manager, and

485
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: the other manager is he's a good guy, but he

486
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: just kind of like he don't really care. He goes

487
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 2: out talks to the guy. I said, just give it. Though.

488
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 2: He comes like down. I said, nigga, didn't I tell you, fucker.

489
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes later he comes there. He said, I think

490
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: you want to talk to him that. I don't really

491
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,959
Speaker 2: believe his judgment anyway, but I said, he was like no,

492
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: He said, you can take fifty dollars out of my

493
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: check if you don't think he's good to talk to outter.

494
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 2: So I said, okay, I'll go up there. Based on that,

495
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: I go up down and talk to him. I'm still

496
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 2: not come this, but I told the guy, I said,

497
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: I'll try you at twenty dollars an hour. When I

498
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 2: tell you, this corny looking white boy was the baddest

499
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: everything ever with all the black people. When he left here,

500
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: the Attorney General had asked him to work for in

501
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: every fuckingbody else. He left here to go to Austin, Texas.

502
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 2: Guess what. His wife was twice as good as him,

503
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 2: and they wanted to take her from the Fairmount Hotel

504
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: here downe to Austin, Texas so that she could run that.

505
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: But he was the baddest thing that ever came through

506
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: these stores his name, and there wasn't one employee. He

507
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: never had a problem. He did have one customer that

508
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: he couldn't get. She was just a bad apple, but

509
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: just one. In the whole time. I could go go

510
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: handle that tape, go handle that tape, and he was

511
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: just amazing. I try to explain to people in any business,

512
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: they're the people that do great And then there's the

513
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 2: people that don't care. Now there's three areas, don't care,

514
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 2: good and great. Good is the enemy of great because

515
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: you know they got the potential to be great. And

516
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: you're like, come on, man, I got a girl. I

517
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: want to pay a whole one hundred and sixty thousand

518
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: to run the whole stand. But she don't want me

519
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 2: to call her after seven on Sunday and before five

520
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: on Thursday. She wants four days off when instead of

521
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: the one hundred and sixty, she could probably be making

522
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: two fifty. But she's good with the hundred. And that's

523
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 2: why good is the enemy of great, because she's like,

524
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: I don't want to be great. I don't want to

525
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: work that hard.

526
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: It's good enough not to get scolded, but it's not

527
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: really what it needs to be.

528
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: It's up. I'm so tired of people telling me I

529
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: want to own my own If I work for myself,

530
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: you are working for yourself. That guy that, that white guy,

531
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: he could go anywhere and get into he left here

532
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: and when he went in to construction, when he got

533
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: down in Austin, and I still rave about him every day.

534
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: The most amazing thing to walk through these doors. You're

535
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: gonna have to cut this. This digger don't walk.

536
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 3: I want to know, turn around real quick, because this

537
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: guy walks in with a glass of wine.

538
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: He just walks in with a castle walk. I said, that's.

539
00:30:50,320 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 2: That's oh my god. Theseiggas must we'll go find the

540
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: way that always always good. They're going good. Anything going, yeah, man?

541
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 2: So then but anyway, keep going, make it great.

542
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 5: Mention my name. We didn't say your name twenty times.

543
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: Uh hey, cat said, can you tell them to get

544
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 5: from mortars?

545
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: Please? Thank you?

546
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: But it's the life is real simple.

547
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: Do you want to own your own? Do you know

548
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: what I do?

549
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: But do you know I work eight days a week.

550
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 3: Talk about that because people think they want that life,

551
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 3: because you may think.

552
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 2: They want to be they can't look good. No, no,

553
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: they they don't understand what it took. But when I

554
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 2: borrowed that money, when I had to borrow that money

555
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: at thirty two percent to build dream, Okay, so I

556
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: went in.

557
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: To talk about that, talk about okay, so.

558
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,239
Speaker 2: I have a republic guard. I got Republic guards. These

559
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: white boys had a place they couldn't make it work

560
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: up on U Street that was the neck of the

561
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: black neighborhood.

562
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: U Street needed to be bought back.

563
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 2: Ben's Chili Bowl was right down the street.

564
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: You know.

565
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: It was trying to do that turn into white, to

566
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: the gentrification you know thing up there and everything. And

567
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: so I went up there and they couldn't make any well.

568
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: The first night they see the black people come in

569
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: their place and it was a good crowd and everything.

570
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: They were like, Mark, this ain't what we can do,

571
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: but we're gonna sell you our least. We're gonna give

572
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: you the place and everything. The problem was they had

573
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: on that dive bar like. That's dream No, that's Republic Arden.

574
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 2: It was dive bar like. And I was like, and

575
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: they had a slumlord and he wasn't doing nothing to

576
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 2: the place. And when I went in there, you know,

577
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 2: I bought all these people. We packed from head to toe.

578
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: And the next day they were like, this should be

579
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: your place. We're gonna sell it to you, and they

580
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: gave me a good price, and I said, that's a

581
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: me I wanted. You know, I'm gonna do it. But

582
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: I got two things into it and it wasn't up

583
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: to my step two weeks into it, and I was like,

584
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 2: I gotta gut this place right quick. But I didn't

585
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 2: have the money and to do it. And then I

586
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: did this. I had this thing called Blossoms that was

587
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: it was crazy. Actually I went from Spy Club to

588
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: the rents to Blossoms and Blossoms was something I did

589
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: on Saturdays only. And I swear to God, it didn't

590
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: matter what Saturday it was. It was like God would

591
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: turn his stick it off. It was born raining because

592
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: it was indoor outdoor. As a matter of fact, that

593
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: God to partner with me at Spy Club. He said,

594
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 2: hold on, you're telling me that they're gonna pay money

595
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 2: to go just across that line, but they can see

596
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: it from right here. He said, now you go ahead

597
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: and do it. And I said, all right. I said,

598
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: but you lost money with me on this other thing

599
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna do, so you ain't anybody Blossoms shock. I

600
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 2: mean everybody flew in town. And I used though one

601
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: of those remember those searchlights, those big spotlights they used

602
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and they God, I would have there and

603
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: everybody would see the light and they couldn't wait till

604
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 2: they got in town. They just followed the light and everything.

605
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 2: And every Saturday night, three four thousand people just trying

606
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: to get it. It was just crazy. Well, when I

607
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 2: got Republic Gardens, I gouted it and I was using

608
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: the money from Blossoms. And then I had this beach party.

609
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 2: Well I thought it was crazy. It was crazy looking,

610
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: it was crazy out my pockets too, but it cost me.

611
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 2: I lost eighty thousand. But again, you're only as good

612
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 2: as your last party. So I had to make everybody

613
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,479
Speaker 2: think it was the greatest thing ever. You know, everyfe

614
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 2: I thought I made a million dollars. The people that

615
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 2: was working on Republic Gardens were like, oo, good, he

616
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: made some money last night. No, they I just lost

617
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 2: eighty thousand. And you know, but you got to keep

618
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: it going. So of course you borrown from here, you're

619
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: getting them from that person. We got Republic Gardens redone open,

620
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 2: Republic Gardens became it. It was my son's I think

621
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: eleventh birthday party, and we were tired of the slumlord

622
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: that we had. He used to do everything. We had

623
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: all star at Republic Gardens. We had a parking lot,

624
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 2: had five thousand people, Jay Z R. Kelly and somebody

625
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 2: else all on stage. It's crazy, and I mean it's

626
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: just phenomenal in the parking lot.

627
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: But this landlord.

628
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: He's bringing dumpsters, blocking the alley, just stupid things. Anything

629
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 2: he can do. So we're going out to Annapolis and

630
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 2: I'm telling my wife. I was like, we got to

631
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 2: get our own place. We gotta do something. We gotta

632
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: get out of there. And I'm just driving down New

633
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 2: York Avenue and I'm like, like, that building right there,

634
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 2: it's for sale. She was like, Okay, we're in the

635
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: worst neighborhood in all of DC. That's what Ivy City was.

636
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: It was literally the worst at that time. She says.

637
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: I said, call the number.

638
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: She said to me, she said, your friend is going

639
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 2: to meet you there tomorrow and talk to you about

640
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: the building. God named George Basilico. He meets me. I

641
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: walked through the building. This place is so dilapidated and

642
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: messed up. They use it for police dogs to search

643
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 2: for drugs, to train them. I mean, it was. It's

644
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: just the worst building ever. The floor is dirty. It

645
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: used to be a Kodak factory forty fifty years ago,

646
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like it was it just

647
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: just a warehouse that was just the lapidated. So then

648
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 2: I said to him, I said, what do you want

649
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: for the building, we do the walk through. He said,

650
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: I want a million dollar. I said, I'm gonna pay it.

651
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: I said, you just got to take the note back.

652
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you ten thousand dollars a month between

653
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: now and next year, and this time next year, I'll

654
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 2: pay you for the building. He said, okay, he was

655
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 2: getting ten grand for I didn't even you know, try

656
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: to work no deal with them. I wanted the building, now,

657
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: mind you. My boy called red God rest his soul.

658
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 2: I had to go borrow the first seventeen thousand dollars

659
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: to get this one to put down on the building

660
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: because I didn't have And then I went around to

661
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: all all the work spots where you get the people

662
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: that you know, the day labor people, And that's where

663
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: I got all my people. Home depot, Home home debot.

664
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: We had a place called Weenie Beanie out here that

665
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 2: I used to Shelton bro get the truck in. Yeah, yeah,

666
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: the truck and they fighting to get in. But I'm

667
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: taking twenty thirty guys every.

668
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: Good old days. Can't do that anymore.

669
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 2: No, two thousands. That was two thousand, I mean two

670
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: thousand and one, twenty dollars a day. That true nah, nah,

671
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 2: we was getting they was getting ten dollars an hour.

672
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: They was getting ten dollars an hour, and we were

673
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 2: paying them, you know, right there. And I had a

674
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: brother in law that was Spanish that had left my

675
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 2: sister and she didn't even know he was living with

676
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 2: me at the time. But he was the key because

677
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 2: he's sposed to be. He spoke the language, you know,

678
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 2: and even when I'd be caussling them out, he'd be like,

679
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: They'd be like, what do you say? He loves to work, y'all,

680
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 2: y'all just say what they say. So he just kept

681
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 2: the peace. He got to go on and everything. Anyway.

682
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna cost me a million five

683
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 2: six million dollars later who burrowed it?

684
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: And I got a group called Politicady for work to

685
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: renovate the whole to.

686
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 2: Renovate the whole thing. I was working off a demo

687
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: permit at first, but I wasn't half assed and none

688
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 2: of the work. I only wanted the best because I

689
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: said that they come after me. I want to be

690
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 2: perfect already. You didn't traditional mind thinks I'm going to

691
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: a bath to get this. There was no I started

692
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: the next day. It took me one hundred and eighty

693
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 2: dumpsters to empty all the stuff that was in the building.

694
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty dumps I mean, like, you can't

695
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: even I made my man. The guy had a dumpster company.

696
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 2: I know, I made his month. Baby. I was just

697
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 2: filling these dumpsters left and right. And then there was

698
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: no architecture drawings. I said, we're gonna put the bar

699
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: right here. We're gonna move a bar over here. We're

700
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: gonna do this here. This part took me three times longer,

701
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: and its four dream was four times the size of

702
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: this building. Because permitting, permitting, permitting, doing this, doing.

703
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: That, doing that.

704
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 2: But the city I had the city behind me. I

705
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: had the higher ups there, and they came down on

706
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: me and they were like, you got to get your

707
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: ship right. You got to get these permits right. You

708
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: gotta get But they they embraced it. The neighborhood embraced it.

709
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 2: They wanted something better, and they saw that I was

710
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 2: doing something that that became dream, That became dream.

711
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: So you had so you borrowed six.

712
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: Million dollars, six million dollars at thirty two percent.

713
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: He borrowed six million dollars thirty two percent from from

714
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: like a hard money lender, their hard money lenners, and

715
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: they gave it to you six million dollars one or

716
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: it was a million. Group gave me two point five.

717
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: So first of all, you got the million dollars first

718
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: on the building. I had to get him to move

719
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: to second place, behind the guy that was giving me

720
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 2: the two point five million. Then I had to get

721
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: another one after that, and I had to get the

722
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 2: two point five to move the second place to owner

723
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: of the building to move the third place. And then

724
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: someone else gave me another two point two million, and

725
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: then I got another seven hundred thousand from friends. So

726
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: I was six million dollars in And were.

727
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: You making money at that time before it even opened?

728
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 2: That's before it opened. But it only took me six

729
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 2: months to build a fifty four thousand square foot building.

730
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: Six months six.

731
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: Months, that's how big that was.

732
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you sleeping at this hung like? I mean, oh,

733
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: I can imagine. Then the hold of home seven hundred

734
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: thousand dollars over drawing is what woke you up every day?

735
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: What was your was your monthly?

736
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 2: Payback was your monthly but I really wasn't paying back.

737
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: It was deferred it was deferred.

738
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 2: It was everybody was deferring everything they saw. Nobody had

739
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: a problem. And then they tried to get me to

740
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 2: open it with just the first floor, and I was like,

741
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 2: it's not going to be dream if it's not the

742
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 2: whole thing. So I got them to believe, and I

743
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: got them to believe, and everybody got them to believe.

744
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 2: And the guys like, you know, the last guys to

745
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: give me the money, they were like, well, I know

746
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 2: I can tell this with two point five no matter why,

747
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get my money. They were all, you know,

748
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 2: everybody else was behind them, but everybody believed in it. Now.

749
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: The guys that gave me the second money, they had

750
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 2: a white guy that was in there, and they were like,

751
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 2: he's staying here till we get our money back. Well,

752
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: of course, everybody that came to the building called the

753
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 2: white guy on the bill. You know what I'm saying, Well,

754
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 2: you got it for a million? Did it praise for

755
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: a MILLI? Or was it praise for much more? They

756
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: did weren't to praise for it was a dumpster. It

757
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: was a dumpster.

758
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: After you renovated, he's looking at like, oh, he did

759
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 3: a good job. That's at least two point five right, gotcha.

760
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: Well, remember but he's after he's got it, he's now

761
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 2: not he's after five million dollars. Now. He then gone

762
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: to third place on the building. So this guy was

763
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 2: just a good guy. He really believed in me.

764
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: So how you get it up and running? And then

765
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 1: how much money you start?

766
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 2: Like how how quick you got to remember I had

767
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 2: my first liquor order was a quarter million dollars.

768
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: Looker order for you to get the whole bars at

769
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: all the bars.

770
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: The next week, I needed another quarter million dollars and

771
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 2: they wanted their money right there.

772
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: To where'd you get that money from?

773
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 2: You borrowed it from somebody else.

774
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: So using a whole like eight million dollars, yep, that's

775
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: why you got that friend, more like seven million. So

776
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: when did you start actually making money?

777
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 2: It wasn't until the second year because you got to

778
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 2: remember all the payments. Then as soon as people see

779
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 2: you making money, they want the money. They want that money.

780
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you was making enough money start paying

781
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: people back?

782
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 2: I was, but I didn't know how to run a

783
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 2: staff of three hundred and fifty people, you know what

784
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like I don't know what payroll is for

785
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty people.

786
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: There was we had. Remember those tubes that Home Depot had.

787
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 2: They used to put the money in and shoot them up,

788
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: and you shoot them up to the aufice the wire.

789
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: That's the dumbest shit in the whole world. I spent

790
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars on those tubes because I thought,

791
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 2: you know, we gotta watch out that somebody gonna rob us.

792
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 2: What's happening here? I mean, everything was a problem in

793
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,479
Speaker 2: the neighborhood. They loved me, but they hated me. They said,

794
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 2: you can't park, you can't start any of your events.

795
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: No for six because we need to get home from work.

796
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: But they didn't want to get home from work. They

797
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 2: would leave their cars at work and they'd be in

798
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 2: there selling their driveway spots for fifty and one hundred dollars.

799
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: Because you got to remember, there was no uber back there.

800
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 2: There wasn't none of the stuff that we got. People

801
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: wasn't going. This ain't New York City. There's no taxi

802
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 2: moving around like that in DC. So everybody was driving. Oh,

803
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: parking was my money though, parking. All I wanted was

804
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 2: parking and.

805
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,720
Speaker 6: Coachat how much was Kacha fifteen thousand a night fifteen

806
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 6: parking with another fifteen to twenty thousand the night cash cash, But.

807
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: I was paying taxes.

808
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: So he's getting forty thousand night off of parking and coaching.

809
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 2: Gilbertarina's party parking did fifty thousand dollars.

810
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that. We don't get together with

811
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: that another. So okay, so you up and running now,

812
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: and now you really start to hit your stride.

813
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 2: I'm hitting the stride. But now at first, remember the

814
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 2: big club, I mean y'all in New York. But y'all

815
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 2: was still a little young for knowing stuff about the tunnel.

816
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was before my time. I know, I know

817
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: about it, but i'll it closed. As we were getting

818
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: I was like, right they were doing.

819
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 2: The tunnel became the tunnel into our general. See once

820
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 2: you what happened is once the tunnel went black, that

821
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: was the money.

822
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: Oh ship, hold on, what is this.

823
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 2: There's a difference between black money and white money and

824
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 2: a night. And there's no club that says they gonna

825
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 2: start out black.

826
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 1: H They're not. They just they not.

827
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: Gonna do it. They they they they're going to get

828
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 2: the white money. They think, they think white money is it?

829
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 2: Friday night was my white knight, Saturday night was, I mean,

830
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: Friday night was my black knight. Saturday night was my

831
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 2: white night at Dream. Friday night was doing a quarter million,

832
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 2: Saturday Night was maybe during eighty. You just can't get it.

833
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: It's the difference and nobody understands it. Do you want

834
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 2: an Emen Markets or do you want Walmart? Well seeing

835
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 2: co check drinks bottle service, so you're saying its bottle service.

836
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 2: But I didn't even know back then.

837
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: So there's more money with the black Oh it crushes

838
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: nowadays there are no clubs that stay white. So talk

839
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: about all right, there's no club to stay white because

840
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: black people spend more money on nightlight than white people.

841
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's the people spend money

842
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,240
Speaker 2: on drugs inside the club, inside that club lesly allegedly.

843
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: Alleged, but that's what I saying. So winning there I

844
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: can even say.

845
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 2: You can say allegedly except that I would do twenty

846
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 2: five hundred.

847
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: White people here at part.

848
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 2: When I opened, I didn't want to handibalize love, so

849
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 2: I said we're gonna I bought this white boy in

850
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 2: from Vegas. We're gonna tell everybody you own the joint

851
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 2: when I opened, When I opened part, you own the joint.

852
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 2: That is a lot of said. We're doing twenty five

853
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: hundred people on night. I'm doing forty fifty thousand dollars.

854
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm like.

855
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: Twenty dollars that I'm watching bartenders, I'm watching the staff.

856
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 2: I'm like skimming this. How the fuck are y'all stealing

857
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: my money?

858
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: Just fine beer. That's where we get to two on

859
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 1: the fifty cameras, Yeah and so, and then the black people,

860
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: how much they doing so? So?

861
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 2: Then I decided here that I was going I did

862
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 2: a black party on a Thursday. On a Thursday, I

863
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 2: did seventy five. I only got twelve hundred people. On Friday,

864
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 2: I'm doing forty five. Something's wrong with this equation.

865
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm doing twenty five hundred people.

866
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 2: I said, we're gonna try the black thing on Friday.

867
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 2: I went up from forty five to one hundred and

868
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 2: thirty five. What you doing? That's gonna be Friday, Saturday,

869
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: and Sunday. It's gonna be Friday.

870
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: Since Jesus, there's no question at this time is food

871
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: even involved yet?

872
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 2: The food is always involved fool's in. So hold on,

873
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, So let me explain to you

874
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 2: what happened. I missed a step here. I hated I

875
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 2: loved doing happy hour five to ten at other people's club.

876
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 2: I was done by ten o'clock and I had already

877
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 2: got everybody drunk and killed everybody else's I destroyed.

878
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: The club life. The late night.

879
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 2: After you drink, you've been partying for five hours. I

880
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 2: used to do. I would be like penny drinks for

881
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: the first hour, because see, this is what you gotta

882
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: remember us. It don't matter.

883
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: Once you in there, you're not gonna stop.

884
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 2: You're not gonna stop. And once you can't get to

885
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 2: the bar, you can't get drinks. You know, the guys

886
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: were coming with their piggy banks. I'm buying the bar,

887
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 2: throwing the pennies, fell over the bar, you know, all

888
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: that stupid stuff and everything. But if I open at

889
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,760
Speaker 2: five and the penny drinks in at seven, because people

890
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 2: you know, in line getting in there to go to work,

891
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 2: the first drink is paying for whatever the liquor costs.

892
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 2: Back then, it was twenty five cents that the liquor

893
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 2: was costing the rink now it's seventy five cents to

894
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 2: a dollar, a dollar and a half. Now you know

895
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, man, unless you drinking do.

896
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: So what liquor cost a dollar and a half for

897
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: a drink?

898
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 2: Well, when you were buying drinks for seven dollars and

899
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 2: fifty cent that's yeah. So like like right now it's

900
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: like twenty dollars a drink, twenty dollars a drink. But

901
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 2: you buy a bottle of don Refo for forty dollars, right,

902
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 2: you get eighteen drinks let's say fifteen. Okay, so that's

903
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: three dollars a drink, right right, that's inflation. That's inflation.

904
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 2: But now when people say, now the pre game is

905
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 2: crazy now, and it's especially in this younger audience. But

906
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: we can get back with that. Let's go back to

907
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 2: where you want to go back to Dream?

908
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: How we got in there? And yeah, how'd you get

909
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: dream with lip?

910
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 2: But my problem with Dream is that I was doing

911
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 2: an artist every week.

912
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: I was dependent on the artists.

913
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 2: Because we went when when my numbers hit fifty five

914
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 2: hundred people in one night, I went crazy. I got

915
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 2: forty managers. I'm like, what the fuck are y'all doing

916
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 2: y'all bullshitting da da da dah. We have to ask

917
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 2: and fifty five hundred people, and I'm cussing people outs.

918
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 2: And the biggest problem is I didn't know how to

919
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 2: clean carpets. So why do I got carpet? I learned

920
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 2: this at Republic Ardens. So I'm in Republic Gardens and

921
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 2: I got hard with floors, beautiful hard with floors. I'm

922
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 2: replacing the hard with floors. And the wood don't come

923
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 2: in in time, but I've already stripped them out. So

924
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 2: I go into my man's carpet shop. I said, give

925
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 2: me some carpet. It's just gonna be there for two weeks. Man,

926
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 2: this bar in the back room that I put the

927
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 2: carpet in is killing it.

928
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: Oh women, it's easier to stand on.

929
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 2: Women can stand up twice as long on carpet as

930
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 2: they can concrete. But what's the problem with carpet? So

931
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: now you ain't gonna have no slipping fall? It thinks

932
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 2: you gotta learn how to clean it. What carpet should

933
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 2: you have? That juice is sitting down there? This is

934
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 2: what I try to tell people. You have a party

935
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 2: at your house, seven your friends, right, they destroy it

936
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 2: not destroy, but they fuck up something. They're gonna fuck

937
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 2: up something. They're gonna fuck up something. These ain't my friends.

938
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 2: They that'sy hummus, your white gut hair. Yeah, how much

939
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: care come up with them? A lot a lot of hair.

940
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: That's one. I don't know how many girls you got

941
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: in your house.

942
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 2: Two girls, and there's a lot of hair in the

943
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 2: goddamn vacuum clean that's.

944
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: Two people, and you cutting the hair out of the

945
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner.

946
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 2: When you get the weeds involved. I got five thousand

947
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 2: coming through a week, are you kidding? I got I

948
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 2: keep eight vacuum cleaners in the shop and eight vacuum

949
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 2: cleaners in the building, so I can just trade out

950
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 2: all eight. Even though my man can clean them, they

951
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 2: still tell these vacuum cleaner up. The problem is bus

952
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 2: boys don't care what it is. They'll vacuum it up,

953
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: the v up. They will vacuum anything. They will vacuum.

954
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: Throw up up.

955
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 2: And no matter how much you try to teach people,

956
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 2: is that so you got? I had to go Vegas.

957
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 2: I was like, how the fuck do they clean their carpets?

958
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 2: I'm sitting up all night watching these motherfuckers clean the carpet.

959
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 2: The problem with carpet is you can shampoo it as

960
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 2: much as you want. What happens when you leave your

961
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 2: closing the washing machine. It's got it if you don't

962
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 2: dry it. So now I have to figure out that

963
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 2: you gotta dry your carpet or it's gonna stink. And

964
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 2: you gotta have the right type of carpet. You gotta

965
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 2: have to rub it back so that that doesn't sit

966
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 2: in the back of the carpet. So you gotta do

967
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 2: all of these things because I don't want to lose

968
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 2: my carpet. Because carpet's ten times better. The room is warm,

969
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 2: it feels good already. You don't mean nothing else. But

970
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: people don't stand all this. So it's learning all of

971
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 2: these pieces of the puzzle. Now it does take twice

972
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 2: as long to close your place down. You know, other

973
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 2: places they cleaning, They trying to mop the floor and

974
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 2: this and that. But people are stupid and cheap. You

975
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 2: gotta change your map hereds every week, even on the floors.

976
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 2: You there, or you get thirty mile war just through

977
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 2: the way. They cost two dollars and fifty cents. It's

978
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 2: just like people give bad sodas for great drinks? Why

979
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 2: am I not gonna use simply lemonade to go along

980
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: with the dou say or whatever else you want to

981
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 2: put in that? You got a great lemonade drink you

982
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 2: want to drink? You like simply lemonade? Do you love it?

983
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 2: If I put that at your table, You're gonna pour

984
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 2: that liquor twice as quick.

985
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: Simply lemonade only cost you three dollars.

986
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 2: That bottle cost you three fifty four hundred in Miami.

987
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: It cost you seventy fifty When you don't when you

988
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: said that you was relying on artists, how'd you fix that?

989
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna spend more money in customer service.

990
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 2: I don't want no more artists. I'm not doing no

991
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 2: artists for no reason. If they come in here, it's

992
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:08,720
Speaker 2: because someone else paid for it. I'm not doing no artists.

993
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: And I want the event, the building, the customer service.

994
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 3: I want people to love. The people at park pakes

995
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 3: sense so at the at his peak before dream turns

996
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 3: to love?

997
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: Now is it?

998
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 2: Black? Friday said, how much would we bring?

999
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: Is college night? Yeah?

1000
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:35,439
Speaker 2: Thursday Friday on Thursday? Yeah, okay, I got this international guy.

1001
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 2: They were doing college stuff. Blah blah blah.

1002
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: They killing it.

1003
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 2: We're doing fifty at the bar and seventy five at

1004
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 2: the door Friday night. A good Friday, average Friday night

1005
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: is one fifty. A good Friday night is three fifty.

1006
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 2: But I got artists, and I got extra security, and

1007
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: I got extra police, and I got a drunk tank

1008
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: that's full with people customer careson.

1009
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: So for it.

1010
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 2: Okay, Literally fifty people lined up. We had a triodge.

1011
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 2: We signed every single person in to the trioge. We

1012
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 2: had a book, every single thing for every and we

1013
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 2: ran that from the day we opened to the day

1014
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 2: I lie. Why do you believe it was too much?

1015
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 2: I got caught up in the uh in the two

1016
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 2: thousand seven eight, had too many properties I owned drink,

1017
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 2: I had too many. I needed to get out of

1018
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 2: that financial prices. Yeah, and and the numbers had dropped

1019
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 2: down to twenty and three thousand unless I had the

1020
00:57:53,840 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 2: right artists, and then this life is not conducive to

1021
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 2: any type of relationship. It just thinks. It's just not.

1022
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 2: It's not conducive to any type of relationship. You know

1023
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like your job is to be friends

1024
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 2: with every beautiful woman in the place. You know what

1025
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

1026
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: It's like Saint Patrick, Jean, what's his name, James, James,

1027
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick. You like the real life James Saint Patrick.

1028
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. You know he ain't watched Power, you know,

1029
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 2: Power fifty cent show. It just is not conducive. Well,

1030
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 2: I'm not the real life because I ain't got nothing

1031
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 2: to do with That's all that. I liked it. But

1032
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 2: the whole that wasn't what the FBI d eight though

1033
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 2: my bank I took it was a fourth of July weekend.

1034
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 2: We had seven hundred thousand cash we took to the bank.

1035
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: What year was that?

1036
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: That was twenty two, I mean two thousand and two,

1037
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 2: two thousand and two after, not eleven.

1038
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you took seven hundred thousand dollars to the bank, to.

1039
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 2: The bank, seven hundred thousand dollars cash, and then we

1040
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,959
Speaker 2: have yeah, well cause not like it was the year after,

1041
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 2: because you're two thousand and one. And that because that's

1042
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 2: where they changed the thinking was that And and so

1043
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 2: the guys who Power Fuel, who had given me the money,

1044
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 2: they knew they were counting all the money I didn't give.

1045
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 2: Fuck you know what I'm saying, like, y'all count the money.

1046
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: You know, we know it's there, and we took the

1047
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand. They called da FBI, everybody on me.

1048
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 2: They came in there. They want to go to the bank.

1049
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: They want to see all the videotapes and everything with

1050
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 2: the one thing that I got, Like in here, there's

1051
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty counts. I'm going to tell you

1052
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 2: where your purse is, where your wallet is, who pickpocketed

1053
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 2: you in anything?

1054
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: The one thing Park is going to do.

1055
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 2: We had cameras at drink, but we got more here

1056
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 2: than we had a drink. Uh, so we could see everything.

1057
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 2: We were like, come watch the videos, come see you.

1058
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 2: You count the people to come in there. They literally

1059
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: sat in there for squad weeks, thirteen weeks then and

1060
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 2: just went through everything they want to go through, go through.

1061
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: That was hell or dream dream. So you so, all right,

1062
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: so your exit dream, you get hit the financial crisis,

1063
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: you recalibrate, and then the bankruptcy, and then you come

1064
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: back to Park. Yes, that's the that's the second wave

1065
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: of it.

1066
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 2: But at that point, I'm like, I'm never doing an

1067
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 2: artist again. I'm done with artists. Artists kill me. They

1068
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 2: want the money. I can't do that, even though at

1069
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 2: the beginning, after two thousand and ten, I think it

1070
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 2: was we never did artists. At the beginning, we were

1071
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: doing we did everybody here too.

1072
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: So you just it's just straight straight parties, yep.

1073
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: And I do have a couple of groups who've come

1074
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 2: up now, but you do the brunch thing too. So

1075
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 2: but before I didn't do Bright Lord, so the bright

1076
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 2: saved it.

1077
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: But before let's bow, let's talk about this bottle service era.

1078
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: When did the bottle service era hit? Because we saw

1079
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: it hit in New York, we saw it hit Miami.

1080
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: When did it hit DC? And how did that drastically change?

1081
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 2: It hit?

1082
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: It hit Dream? It hit Dream.

1083
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 2: But I didn't know what was going on. There was

1084
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 2: door money, there was parking money, and there was ko chap.

1085
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even think, girl, y'all go ahead tell me

1086
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 2: at the end of the night, what y'all did in

1087
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 2: bottle service.

1088
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: Instead of that, I wasn't even really interested in it.

1089
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 2: And the thing was, if you with the girl in

1090
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 2: charge of the bottle service, you with a god. Well,

1091
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 2: first of all, anybody who worked at Dream was a god.

1092
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: I mean, because they opened the doors to get it.

1093
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 2: People, ain't you were in the most powerful place in

1094
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 2: the country at the time. The ideos meetings were about

1095
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 2: how are these motherfuckers selling so much? And how can

1096
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 2: we get other people to do it?

1097
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: How much nigge was you selling.

1098
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 2: One hundred k? We were take a hundred one hundred

1099
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 2: ks drops pallets they would just take they I was

1100
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 2: selling so much.

1101
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: Absolute They flew me down private.

1102
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 2: Plane, gave me a house and sent me to the Masters.

1103
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 2: When they called me and said we got tickets for

1104
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 2: you to the Masters, I was like, what the fuck

1105
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 2: is that?

1106
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: I know?

1107
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: I don't know nothing about golf. And they were like,

1108
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 2: it's the super Bowl of Golf. And I was like,

1109
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: I don't want them. They were like you want these

1110
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 2: fucking tickets? Run and said They said, can you call

1111
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 2: just one person and that plays golf and asked us

1112
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 2: I called my boy, this boy, Jack Murray White Boy.

1113
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 2: I was like, what's this master Ship?

1114
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: He was like, oh my god, what the fuck you mean?

1115
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 2: I was like, these motherfuckers want to give me tickets

1116
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 2: to the master And they said I want to go?

1117
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 2: Do I want to go?

1118
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, I want to go.

1119
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 2: I said, you want to go with me. He was like,

1120
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 2: you're damn right, I want to go. And he was

1121
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 2: in charge of radio at Radio one. I was selling

1122
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 2: all the radio, so you know, I took my boy

1123
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 2: and everything. You know, we went down there. I still

1124
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 2: didn't get talking. You know, it just wasn't my thing.

1125
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I got on an early

1126
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 2: plane coming back. Okay, I'm standing there with VJ singing

1127
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 2: and all that golf.

1128
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: Just say shout so all right. So but when the

1129
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: bottle service hit, you didn't fully understand it that It.

1130
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:46,439
Speaker 2: Was like I didn't.

1131
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: So it's like Neo Brown, like he didn't fully understand

1132
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 1: what the crack was until he wan. You had to

1133
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: at some point you do. No, no, eventually, no, no, no.

1134
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 2: That's why Gilbert's party was a million dollar party because

1135
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 2: we saw four hundred thousand and bottle service table.

1136
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: Let's just get to that party because you keep talking

1137
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: about it. Was it a million or two million?

1138
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 2: It was a million. It wasn't talking about the party,

1139
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 2: it was a million. So Gilbert comes to me, it

1140
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 2: was marking task back.

1141
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: This This is when he was he was with the ratchet.

1142
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 1: He before the ratchet up, after the ratchet. I don't

1143
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:22,959
Speaker 1: think Gilbert really was the racket. I mean, he's the man,

1144
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: he was the man.

1145
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 2: But but but he wasn't the man, and I didn't.

1146
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 2: So when I did at Republic Gardens, it was marked.

1147
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 2: It was marking task. So when I went to Dream

1148
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 2: it was marking tas. We did these parties together. But

1149
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 2: because again I'm sixty two and I was getting older,

1150
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 2: and I was like, who wants to go party with

1151
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 2: the with the dad? You know what I'm saying. So

1152
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 2: I would always try to bring in the younger motherfucking

1153
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 2: crowds and keep relevant when I got When we got there,

1154
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 2: gil Tak used to play ball, so he knew all

1155
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 2: the ballplayers. He knew all he knew the street, and

1156
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 2: I knew the corny side. So he brings Gilbert in

1157
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 2: and he said, he said to me, he said, Gilbert

1158
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 2: want to do this? I said, who's Gilbert? Because I

1159
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 2: wasn't up on it. I just was it. So he

1160
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 2: comes down there. He talked to So, I said, you

1161
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 2: want a birthday party? Or do you want a birthday

1162
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 2: party that nobody will ever forget? He said, well, what's

1163
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 2: the difference? I said, birthday party gonna cost you twenty

1164
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 2: five thousand, oneerday, never gonna forget. It's gonna cost you

1165
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 2: a quarter million. He said, I want one day, never

1166
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 2: gonna forget. I said, if you want to write the check, baby,

1167
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 2: I want to take it. He said, I want.

1168
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: So then my biggest problem is.

1169
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 2: I can't half ass nothing. I can't. It's gotta be right,

1170
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 2: it's got to be done perfect. So I said, I'm

1171
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 2: gonna spend this whole quarter million could show myself off

1172
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 2: to make it the baddest thing.

1173
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: We did.

1174
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 2: This invitation. It was a great Gilbert Arenas. It was

1175
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 2: the Arenas Express and it looked just like an American

1176
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 2: Express card and it had Gilbert's picture you know that

1177
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 2: what do you call it centorium or what the guy

1178
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 2: that they American Express got in the middle of their car. Anyway,

1179
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 2: but it had his face on it. It was the

1180
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 2: sickest shit. So then he said, I want to get Poff.

1181
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 2: He said, I want to get the game. I want

1182
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 2: to get Ti, I want to get who else was

1183
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 2: it Buster the Rhymes? I think it was like five

1184
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 2: artists and.

1185
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: He had everybody there.

1186
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 2: So now you getting this black card Arenas experience that

1187
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 2: came in this thing. Just you know how American Express

1188
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 2: sing you their car. It looked just like a marieric.

1189
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 2: I can Express. Niggas was going in the stores dropping

1190
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 2: them down, you know, and everything. But every card had

1191
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 2: every single person's name on that special special invite. Eight

1192
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 2: thousand cards we made. We bought the machine. We had

1193
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 2: two machines running day and night. People begging the body invitations.

1194
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 2: We're like, it's invite only blah blah blah, this, that

1195
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 2: and the other. Gilb was giving me two hundred names

1196
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 2: a day. You know what I'm saying, need these? We

1197
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 2: dropping them off to him. His girls aroun at when

1198
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 2: I tell you. But this is January fifth. We're planning

1199
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 2: for coache We're gonna check eight thousand coats US forty

1200
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. I'm gonna make in coach check. Tell me

1201
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 2: what the problem was. It was hot, it was sixty

1202
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 2: five degrees and the ice culture was mealthy. But I

1203
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 2: was in heaven because we had to open us. We

1204
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 2: into the whole street and I'll give y'all so pictures

1205
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 2: of this and stuff like that. We tinted the whole street.

1206
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 2: It was the most amazing thing. We had crap games

1207
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 2: card games, everything. Gilbert then said, I'm flying a plane

1208
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 2: from la He paying for all these artists. We do

1209
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 2: four hundred thousand dollars and bottle service tables before we opened.

1210
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 2: The first two hours was open bar and the food

1211
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 2: was amazing. You got eight thousand people coming. I didn't

1212
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 2: have a table for Ti, so I had to give

1213
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 2: him the fourth floor bar with the bartenders. Because it

1214
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 2: was a big bar. I said, you just back here

1215
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:50,719
Speaker 2: this year, bottle service tape like it was, and every

1216
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 2: single floor was ridiculous. Now we were going supposed to

1217
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 2: do the artists inside. We built a stage outside. My

1218
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 2: man shout out to my man. He paid twenty thousand

1219
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 2: for a table and because he wanted to be right

1220
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:07,600
Speaker 2: next to the art I mean the stage while they

1221
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 2: was performed, and he wasn't up and they never came inside.

1222
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 2: He don't let me. He don't let me forget that

1223
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 2: he did. You know, you're only twenty thousars to this day.

1224
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: But we sold everything.

1225
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 2: The whole place was the most ridiculous thing that you'd

1226
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 2: ever seen, but it was really the perfect part. Fifty

1227
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 2: thousand in parking. Gilbert drove his Lamborghini into the party

1228
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 2: because we tended the whole street and he drove right

1229
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 2: into the middle of the party. He's in zeous. Yes,

1230
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 2: it was phenomenal. When I tell you, they were talking

1231
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 2: about Chennie Smith was like, do you see this? Do

1232
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 2: you He's on Sports Center? Do you see this? You

1233
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 2: see this invitation? I mean it was. It was the

1234
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 2: most amazing thing ever. And everybody then knew dream worldwide.

1235
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was a three page spread

1236
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 2: in the Washington Post. You know what I'm saying, like,

1237
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 2: oh my god, this party, pictures of him. It was.

1238
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 2: It was just nothing like it.

1239
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: Now, I didn't know.

1240
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 2: Gilbert had a different agenda. He was trying to get

1241
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 2: his cloud out with Adidas and everybody, and you know,

1242
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 2: get his votes for All Star and everything.

1243
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: It worked.

1244
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 2: But when I tell you it worked, he was hitting

1245
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 2: three pointer game winning child.

1246
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, when I tell you.

1247
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 2: It was the perfect storm for that party, it was

1248
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 2: nothing ever like it. Nothing.

1249
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: And you made four hundred thousand in bottle service, and

1250
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: now he had already given me two fifty. I mean

1251
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand in bottle service.

1252
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 2: Probably made another one hundred and fifty at the bar.

1253
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 2: I don't know how much niggas made trying to sell

1254
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:03,760
Speaker 2: their invitations. You know what I'm saying. You know, Mike, Mike,

1255
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 2: I need two more these names on it. You know,

1256
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 2: everybody wanted their name.

1257
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: When you said you didn't understand the bottle service, was

1258
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 1: it the idea of people just buying a bottle or

1259
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: the idea that they would pay this.

1260
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 2: Much for a bottle? The problem was I couldn't pay

1261
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 2: attention to inside because there were eight thousand people trying

1262
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 2: to get in the outside. So I didn't even I'm like,

1263
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 2: I don't care. I gotta figure this out. And then

1264
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 2: the problem with those shoots to the money is that

1265
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 2: you got to have somebody counting the money when it

1266
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 2: goes in, and then somebody the other in or like

1267
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 2: in those bank movies that you see, the money can

1268
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 2: just go minser and nobody knew it. It wasn't setting

1269
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 2: up stealings going over Oh still, So I'm telling you

1270
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 2: the stealing is that all time? Huh everybody and you

1271
01:11:55,280 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 2: know it. But I'm it's like you just going into

1272
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 2: if you started doing the oil business business tomorrow, somebody

1273
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 2: just gave it to you. You don't know where they're

1274
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 2: stealing from you. It's just too big it's too much.

1275
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 2: There's too much money coming through, you know, and the banks.

1276
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 2: We're switching up where we're dropping off the bank because

1277
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 2: you don't want to get robbed, you know, because the

1278
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:22,719
Speaker 2: bankers that's making twenty five or fifteen dollars an hour.

1279
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 1: Back then, they pillow talking.

1280
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 2: Goddamn, I had to count three hundred thousand a day,

1281
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 2: or I had to count one hundred and fifty thousand,

1282
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So you got we had

1283
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 2: the police following us to the bank on the big weekends.

1284
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 2: The police would just sit there all night. I'd have

1285
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:39,559
Speaker 2: a rotat just so we wouldn't get robbed.

1286
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 1: She was getting robbed internally, absolutely, how much date, How

1287
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: do you think he was getting robed for?

1288
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 2: I think they were taking ten percent of everything, and

1289
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 2: that's a lot of money. That's thirty thousand a week,

1290
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 2: you know, forty fifty thousand a week. Everybody was winning

1291
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 2: and everybody was happy. How do you change that? Do

1292
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 2: you decide to pay them more or it's just something.

1293
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 2: Oh they're gonna pay. They don't matter how much. It

1294
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:08,360
Speaker 2: don't matter how much you give them. They said donna take,

1295
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:11,880
Speaker 2: They're gonna take. It's cash it's going somewhere. But that's

1296
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 2: changed now.

1297
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, we don't gonna say it cash now,

1298
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 3: talk about that game.

1299
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 2: The credit card companies are still in there. Four percent

1300
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 2: from you, you know what I'm saying. So if you

1301
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 2: make for on your thousand, they taken sixteen thousand every week,

1302
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 2: sixteen thirty.

1303
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: Mine's always taken.

1304
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying sixteen four percent or ten percent. I'm gonna

1305
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 2: take the four percent if you get to your poe.

1306
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 2: So what they don't give it to your police? Oh yeah,

1307
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 2: now I don't know about that, but you know.

1308
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 1: And then even when the problem.

1309
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 2: Was, if it wasn't rough weekend, you still gotta pay it.

1310
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 2: Everybody's like, fuck, you pay me. They want you to win.

1311
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 2: You've been winning, you know.

1312
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 1: And it's just so many other distractions. We'll talk about this.

1313
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 1: You said nobody spends money like black people all night life.

1314
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: What about brunch? Oh my god, brunch. I've seen the

1315
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: first hand you brunches power homecoming? That was crazy? How

1316
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 1: a homecoming? What are you talking about? Every week? Super Bowl?

1317
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: All this was super Bowl.

1318
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 2: People are doing what on Super Bowl?

1319
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,679
Speaker 1: They're going to their friends' houses and everything.

1320
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 2: The super Bowl party wasn't amazing, but the brunch was

1321
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 2: seven hundred and eighty people.

1322
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: Brunches. What's the science for the brunch? You got a

1323
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: few hots. I didn't learn. I didn't learn anything, Yo,

1324
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: Louliere about to get escorted out of head.

1325
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 2: I didn't learn anything. I can tell them. I can

1326
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 2: give them ABCD. Do you can think that Houston's Restaurant

1327
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 2: hides anything that they do? You can see everything they

1328
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 2: do right, every single thing they do. You can see.

1329
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: No one can duplicate it. Why is it? No one

1330
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: has a useless I mean, it's the same thing with

1331
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. You know his workout, you see you can

1332
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: see his workout, but you're still not gonna be Michael Jordan.

1333
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:16,679
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be Michael Jordan. So I can tell

1334
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: you to what's that? What's the signs with the break

1335
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: because we've been told like is to have a few

1336
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: items like.

1337
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 2: No, no, no, mm hmm. The key to everything is

1338
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 2: the service, unreasonable hospitality. That's it.

1339
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: Food gotta be good. Food costs you don't have to

1340
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: how don't give a fuck about food cost? You don't

1341
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: care about food cost.

1342
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,439
Speaker 2: I don't care about because your weekend it's all you

1343
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 2: can eat. It's all.

1344
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: You'll never eat more.

1345
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:51,640
Speaker 2: And you make exactly okay, And and if you do,

1346
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 2: I'm happy to feed you. Okay. You give good mimosas.

1347
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:02,600
Speaker 2: You don't buy the worst cheap liquor. You buy good champagne.

1348
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 2: You give them something or perseco or whatever it is.

1349
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 2: You give them something that tastes amazing. If they want,

1350
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 2: I'm using blueberry lemonade to make mimosas. They're loving it.

1351
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 2: Everybody don't want orange juice. I'm using good orange juice.

1352
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 2: Like people don't get give them great, they'll come back.

1353
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 2: I need you to do what go tell your wife.

1354
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 2: We got to go to brunch.

1355
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: So that's it.

1356
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 3: So about the food, the service, the ambiance, because one

1357
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 3: of the things we talked about over here was the

1358
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 3: excellence and the level of excellence. And even when we

1359
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:50,440
Speaker 3: went outside, people away. It's just a level of maturity professionalism.

1360
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 2: That you see. And that's why talk about that. And

1361
01:16:52,280 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 2: unfortunately that is why you have to kind of like

1362
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 2: if you look at TikTok right now, there's a whole

1363
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 2: bunch of stuff on there. Mark don't play. I'm not

1364
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 2: gonna play. You're still in a dinner a restaurant. I

1365
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,719
Speaker 2: want you to dance, I want you to sing every song.

1366
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 2: I don't want that. We're not talking on the tables, right.

1367
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:25,599
Speaker 1: I don't.

1368
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't want the turk and I don't

1369
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 2: want the craziness. I want the true runch experience where

1370
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 2: everybody in the room is singing.

1371
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 7: But to me, DJs a is stupid because they should

1372
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 7: own the crowd, viz, own the crowd. That's why i'm

1373
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 7: these DJs. They don't practice, they don't go home.

1374
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 2: And the biggest challenge here is I got all the

1375
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 2: Allen Evison's you know what, they the greatest players in

1376
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 2: the world. But guess what, they don't want to go

1377
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 2: to practy. That's my man. Yeah, but when you.

1378
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:17,639
Speaker 1: Didn't know it all, they think they know it all.

1379
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 2: They know it all. Yeah, they know it all. Three

1380
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 2: of the greatest people that I ever had work for me.

1381
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 2: I had to let go because I'm out. They think

1382
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 2: it's for me. It's not for me.

1383
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:34,440
Speaker 1: But when you but so you're doing a brunch.

1384
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 2: From what time or what from eleven to five?

1385
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: From eleven to five, then the club opens up, then

1386
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 1: you go to dinner here heah, from what time from

1387
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: five to ten, from five to ten, yeah, and then

1388
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:49,599
Speaker 1: the club opens up from ten to three.

1389
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 2: So but the real money makers he got a member,

1390
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 2: ain't them?

1391
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: What's the real money maker?

1392
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 2: The real money makers are when the corporate people want

1393
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 2: to come in here and they look at your vena

1394
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 2: and they're like, Wow, this is clean, this is beautiful,

1395
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 2: and then you give them the best party that they

1396
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 2: have ever had. If you think I'm good as I

1397
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 2: can give our people the greatest service. Oh my god,

1398
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 2: what I can do for this corporate people. I feel

1399
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 2: like we.

1400
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 3: Teamed one day and it was like Delaware rented out

1401
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 3: the space. I was like what they were like, Yeah,

1402
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 3: all the representatives they took over those space.

1403
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: No, no, no, what's the revenue look like for the corporates? Huh?

1404
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 2: I got three this month coming out, each one of

1405
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 2: them paying anywhere from one hundred and twenty to one

1406
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety thousand for.

1407
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,680
Speaker 1: Tonight to night. And those are the easiest thing in

1408
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: the world.

1409
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 2: Three four hours, all the food, all the drink, no

1410
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 2: problems at all. How are the margins? So because they

1411
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 2: somebody was those margins, Yeah, are crazy?

1412
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: All the typical because it's not a lot of people.

1413
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people towards it. Crazy Margins

1414
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 2: because you don't have no security, you don't have no problems.

1415
01:20:07,520 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 2: They don't tear the place up. It's corporate.

1416
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:15,680
Speaker 3: Typical night Margins is dinner because the death restaurant spaces.

1417
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 3: I mean those sometimes on a Thursday night.

1418
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I make twenty thousand, i'm breaking eating even

1419
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 2: maybe loser. Friday night, I'm doing seventy five to one hundred.

1420
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 2: After sixty I'm making money. Okay, Saturday, I'm trying to

1421
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 2: do one to one seventy five. I'm not worried about

1422
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 2: no food costs. Honestly. I tell my people my crab suits.

1423
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 2: People get tired of eating the crab in my craft suit.

1424
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: So much crabs.

1425
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 2: There's so much crabs.

1426
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 8: It's I wanted to be just like that. I want

1427
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 8: you to go tell people you gotta have this fucking

1428
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 8: craft soup. There used to be a place here. It

1429
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 8: was down in Southwest.

1430
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 2: They had the best sheet craft soup I've ever had

1431
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:13,799
Speaker 2: in my life. You couldn't eat it but two days,

1432
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 2: maybe once a week because it was too rich, it

1433
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 2: was too good. You know what I'm saying. When you talking, Oh,

1434
01:21:21,400 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 2: I did forget. I tried to go back, and I

1435
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 2: forgot again. The key to everything is my food. Other

1436
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 2: places aren't starting until what CLOBs don't hot. You won't

1437
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 2: get the club until there's somebody in there. Right eleven

1438
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 2: twelve one in New York. You know what I'm saying.

1439
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:43,759
Speaker 2: So you're messing out.

1440
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm catching you at five o'clock cause they're coming to eat.

1441
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 2: They coming to eat, and they don't leave, and my

1442
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 2: brunch is about to become My dinner is about to

1443
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 2: come to the same thing as my brunch. That's what

1444
01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 2: I walked.

1445
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 3: Is there a timetable on the bruch, like you can't

1446
01:21:58,520 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 3: be here an hour and a half.

1447
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 2: That's what you think? Two hours was too much? They

1448
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 2: would twisted.

1449
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:04,839
Speaker 1: So a lot, a lot of a lot of restaurant

1450
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: tours say that I will let you.

1451
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 2: Stay for two hours sometimes if your tables, but when

1452
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 2: we sold them, we're doing eight nine hundred thousand. I

1453
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 2: gotta I gotta keep doing, and it's hard. It's the

1454
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:19,719
Speaker 2: hardest thing is to get it. They'll say we'll pay double,

1455
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 2: we'll got balls, and I'll be like, you lit over.

1456
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 2: I'm just over serving me now.

1457
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: So what you make that known when they come in, like, look,

1458
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 1: you go only stay down there.

1459
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 2: It's a contract.

1460
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: When a lot of restaurant tours that I know don't

1461
01:22:38,439 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: like night life, they shy away from that. They're like, look,

1462
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 1: it's only problems. Is trouble, people get stabbed shot. They

1463
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 1: don't because a lot of restaurants go tonight life when

1464
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: their restaurants starts struggling. But a lot of restaurant tos

1465
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: I they were like, I just want to keep it clean.

1466
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: It's over at midnight eleven o'clock. Like I don't want

1467
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: to go into night life. You do both. You do

1468
01:22:57,720 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: restaurants at night life.

1469
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 2: I do and in that.

1470
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: So and so, what's your thoughts on that philosophy that

1471
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: night life is too much trouble.

1472
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 2: I think it's all going to end once we get

1473
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 2: the facial recognition for everybody else.

1474
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 1: They had that in London. Yeah, because in London we

1475
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 1: went to you know, you gotta turn your hat around

1476
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: to go on to the or turn it around taking

1477
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:26,680
Speaker 1: it off as understandable because it's like you don't want

1478
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 1: hats and the establishment. But it's like why would you

1479
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: wake it? Why wear it to the back. They didn't

1480
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 1: realize that they had the facial record so they can

1481
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: scan your face. So we want to go to membership,

1482
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: but right now you're not that membership. So you've been

1483
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: in thirty years, You've seen everything? Is it? How have

1484
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: you been able to snowy novel.

1485
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:48,679
Speaker 2: That I would have made it without brunch? There's nothing

1486
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 2: like brunch. Nothing. The formula that I've gotten for brunch

1487
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 2: is everything to me. And the key to that is service.

1488
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,160
Speaker 1: But how are you able not to have major problems

1489
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 1: at night? Shooting stabbings like that's a lot of let's

1490
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:18,439
Speaker 1: knock on woods because it can happen anywhere. Demographic are you?

1491
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 2: Is it?

1492
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: Dress code? Is the music? Because somebody somebody, somebody's everyone's

1493
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,560
Speaker 1: every we interview, we interview, you know Jimmy from the

1494
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:28,759
Speaker 1: Bronx Jimmy Cafe. Yeah, so he said something that was interested.

1495
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: He said, I said, how do you control type of

1496
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 1: energy that's in the club. It used to be a

1497
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: dress code, as the old dress codes anymore? He said,

1498
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: it's the music. He said, you play a certain music,

1499
01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:41,160
Speaker 1: you're going to attract a certain demographics. If you purposely

1500
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: play a different type of music, or even if you

1501
01:24:43,160 --> 01:24:45,719
Speaker 1: see it's some level of friction. You tell it, DJ

1502
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: Switch the music like his thing was the music dictates

1503
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 1: the energy.

1504
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 2: I think it does. But I think you have to

1505
01:24:57,320 --> 01:25:04,599
Speaker 2: go for a clientele. And I think in the next year,

1506
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 2: well I know in the next six months, I'm going

1507
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:09,280
Speaker 2: to membership.

1508
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: For this, hope, for this, for everything. What was that?

1509
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 1: What does that look like? What does the membership model

1510
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:16,800
Speaker 1: look like? For part?

1511
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 2: Okay? So right in there we do Let's say we

1512
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 2: do five thousand people a week. Yeah, five percent of

1513
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 2: those people are a's or what a's.

1514
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:32,719
Speaker 1: As like highest quality? Okay, that means you spin a client,

1515
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:33,600
Speaker 1: a client and a.

1516
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 2: Client, twenty percent of these, sixty percent of c's, fourteen

1517
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 2: percent of these, and one percent is if you don't

1518
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 2: one f can just screw up the whole building. Just

1519
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 2: enough with he just another he got a problem, fucking up,

1520
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:56,719
Speaker 2: he fuck it up. If I just take the a's

1521
01:25:56,720 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 2: in the BS every week, that's twenty five percent. Twenty

1522
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 2: five percent of five is twelve hundred and fifty people.

1523
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 2: If I went and offered those people and then tell

1524
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 2: me this, where's your favorite place.

1525
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:17,639
Speaker 1: To go to? My favorite place? Restaurant, cloud anywhere in America? Yeah,

1526
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: the part okay, but if you lived here, like what's

1527
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: convenience soulhouses convenient something like that.

1528
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 2: That's my But listen to this. If they said you

1529
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,680
Speaker 2: don't go to soho house because you also get a

1530
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 2: bill from them every month, you gotta spend some my

1531
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 2: at you other you do this other that. But if

1532
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 2: you said you could get a membership for one hundred

1533
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 2: dollars a month and you could get up to three

1534
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 2: drinks every day for free with that one hundred dollars

1535
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,799
Speaker 2: a month membership, how quick would you buy that membership?

1536
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 1: But that's what's going to include three anytime you come,

1537
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: buy anytime you come, and you get three. So if

1538
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:03,480
Speaker 1: I get is is that even profitable?

1539
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 2: Let me tell you how profitable it is. If you

1540
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 2: say you can get three drinks and these are all

1541
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 2: members now, member, you want to be here?

1542
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: Worth now?

1543
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 2: Because it's what all a's and d's high Clarentel high

1544
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:20,080
Speaker 2: in clientel.

1545
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: Okay.

1546
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 2: So if I go twenty weeks at twelve hundred and

1547
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 2: fifty people a week all a's and b's, that's twenty

1548
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:34,679
Speaker 2: five thousand people. That means at the beginning of a month,

1549
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:37,679
Speaker 2: if they all pay me one hundred dollars a month,

1550
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 2: I taken two point five million. That's six million dollars,

1551
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 2: I mean, six hundred thousand a week before I sell

1552
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:53,719
Speaker 2: any bottle service or food.

1553
01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 1: But that's the right I say that they're different people.

1554
01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 1: It might be the same people every week though too.

1555
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 2: That's twenty five thousand people that I'm going to give

1556
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 2: a membership too. That can also for a price, bring

1557
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 2: a friend along with them, but they're gonna have to

1558
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 2: get a membership or different teer membership. I want them

1559
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:18,880
Speaker 2: to get a membership, and they are going to be

1560
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 2: different tier membership. But again, the average restaurant isn't taking

1561
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 2: in two point four million dollars a month. Neither I

1562
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm taking in one point five to one

1563
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 2: point eight a month, twenty million a year.

1564
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: Okay, So.

1565
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 2: If I can now go to two point five six

1566
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,760
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars, and that's with all the brunch and

1567
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:53,960
Speaker 2: all the bottle service tables right now. But if I

1568
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 2: knew I had that money coming in at the beginning

1569
01:28:55,920 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 2: of the month, I can hire even more customer service.

1570
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:08,440
Speaker 2: It's people and it's what only what I want, and

1571
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:13,920
Speaker 2: it's all facial recognition. Then you put the Netflix model

1572
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 2: in on it, and you say I'm going to go

1573
01:29:18,080 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 2: buy up four little spots, so you not stopped just

1574
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 2: coming the park, and for twenty five dollars more a month.

1575
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 2: So I'm now getting two hundred dollars a month. You

1576
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:33,519
Speaker 2: can go to all four of the spots. So now

1577
01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 2: I'm taking in five million, sixteen million dollars a year

1578
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 2: before I sell one drink, a piece of food, all brush,

1579
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 2: all bottle service table. No, that's the Marbel. And I

1580
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 2: can tell everybody about it, and they won't do it

1581
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:56,680
Speaker 2: because everybody shows people what they do and people just

1582
01:29:56,720 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 2: can't do it. For fact, that is a fact people

1583
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 2: can't do.

1584
01:30:03,400 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 9: You can tell people exactly what you're doing, they can't

1585
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 9: do what you do. Sure now there'll be somebody to

1586
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:15,439
Speaker 9: come close to it, and it may be somebody who

1587
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 9: does do it better.

1588
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,799
Speaker 2: But I've told hundreds of people this Mordel, and nobody

1589
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 2: does it. Nobody does what I do. The key is, though,

1590
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 2: you can't be greedy either. It's like destroying a country

1591
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:34,519
Speaker 2: when the top. If I have all the money and

1592
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,760
Speaker 2: I'm up here and all my people down there, it

1593
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:41,680
Speaker 2: ain't right. I'm bringing all my people along with me.

1594
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:43,200
Speaker 2: Let's go y'all.

1595
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: Have you seen a decrease in revenue from people not

1596
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 1: drinking alcohol as much as not used to be? You know,

1597
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: grew thirteen percent because you know about that stat I do,

1598
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:51,960
Speaker 1: and the.

1599
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 2: Twenty two billion dollars worth of liquor that's sitting in reserve.

1600
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:56,760
Speaker 1: But it's not affecting you.

1601
01:30:57,640 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 2: I grew thirty.

1602
01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:00,880
Speaker 1: Yet you have an older audience to no, I don't.

1603
01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 1: You don't have old audience that can I tell you

1604
01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:04,839
Speaker 1: what the real.

1605
01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 2: Problem is out here? What Don Julio Repo? They are

1606
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:11,160
Speaker 2: selling a lot of that. You know.

1607
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:19,320
Speaker 10: I go through sixty to one hundred cases a week. Tequila, tequila, tequila.

1608
01:31:19,880 --> 01:31:21,840
Speaker 10: I ain't never seen nothing like Don Julio Repo.

1609
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 2: Though I saw the Rock days, the Great Goose Days,

1610
01:31:28,120 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 2: the Hennessy Day on what shot?

1611
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:33,400
Speaker 1: I don't seen everything. They all want shots.

1612
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:38,880
Speaker 3: There's nothing, yeah like Don Julio Repo. There's one thing

1613
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 3: that a sex shot. It affects everybody. He talked about

1614
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 3: it before we started whether most people don't think about that, and.

1615
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 2: So can I tell you? This is the first year

1616
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:54,320
Speaker 2: in the last five years I've worried, Oh I had

1617
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 2: weather really affects me? I try to tell people. People say, oh,

1618
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,639
Speaker 2: I want to owe my own. See, the biggest challenge

1619
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 2: that people have is I want to own my own.

1620
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:08,439
Speaker 2: Before you say you want to own your own, come

1621
01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 2: in here and learn everything I do. Learn what the

1622
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 2: insurance is, Learn what the challenges are of things, learn

1623
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 2: about every do everything at a job. I wish that's

1624
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:21,679
Speaker 2: the only thing. I jumped in it. And I didn't

1625
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 2: know the finance side. I didn't know everything about the money.

1626
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:29,160
Speaker 1: Never got a line of credit.

1627
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 2: Never. But the whole thing is is that you gotta

1628
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 2: hire good people and you gotta now no matter how

1629
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:46,920
Speaker 2: you try. But I try to tell people you got

1630
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:49,240
Speaker 2: to live the way you want your people to be.

1631
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:52,479
Speaker 2: A dream. We had three hundred employees and okay, so

1632
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,960
Speaker 2: now we got the guy, I got boot y'all, I

1633
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 2: got TVs, I got you know, three hundred employees. Everybody

1634
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 2: got something. I'm not letting you sell nothing stolen. I'm

1635
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:07,559
Speaker 2: not buying nothing stolen. I'm not aching nothing. When the

1636
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:09,680
Speaker 2: liquor people come and they say, you know, I got

1637
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:11,400
Speaker 2: one of these they fell off the truck, I said,

1638
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:12,720
Speaker 2: you want me call them and telling them they fell

1639
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:17,040
Speaker 2: off your truck, because next week you're trying to steal

1640
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 2: my looking walk the cases in and accidentally walk the

1641
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:21,519
Speaker 2: case out.

1642
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 1: Oh I thought I over gave.

1643
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:25,679
Speaker 2: It to you. You know this, that and the other.

1644
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:35,880
Speaker 2: But I don't think people understand what it takes to

1645
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:39,599
Speaker 2: make it work. I can't duplicate myself. I really wish

1646
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 2: I could, because then I'd have five of these and

1647
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,599
Speaker 2: be sitting on the beach. There are challenges, you know,

1648
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:52,679
Speaker 2: keeping yourself relevant no matter what. It's hard, no matter

1649
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 2: what you're doing podcast today in a minute, if you

1650
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 2: don't have the right guess, the right people, the right thing.

1651
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:03,639
Speaker 2: You got to keep what's excited, what makes it good?

1652
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:09,200
Speaker 2: Who's really given the right information. That's what it's about.

1653
01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 2: What makes this work? You know, it's like what makes

1654
01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 2: this country work? I think where everybody else thinks the

1655
01:34:18,240 --> 01:34:21,360
Speaker 2: AI is going to take these jobs. It's gonna take

1656
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:24,040
Speaker 2: these jobs, but it's gonna teach He's kids in them

1657
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 2: in When I tell you you're going to be able

1658
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 2: to have an iPad that figures out, you know, just

1659
01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:32,320
Speaker 2: like you talked to Groncle, you talk to one of

1660
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 2: these other things. Now they got different voices that they're

1661
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:37,920
Speaker 2: gonna find a voice that you want to talk to

1662
01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 2: something that you want to hear, just like they understand

1663
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:43,720
Speaker 2: your algorithms. And you know, the kids that want to

1664
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:46,599
Speaker 2: watch fights, they send them fights. What does that World Star?

1665
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 1: Right? The kids?

1666
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:53,320
Speaker 2: Everything that comes up on my algorithm is AI everything,

1667
01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 2: every AI commercial, Dad everything I want because that's what

1668
01:34:57,520 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 2: I'm watching. I'm believing that it's listening to me and

1669
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 2: knows what I want. I don't even I've never seen

1670
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 2: except on other people's phones. This Wolf Star stuff, I'm

1671
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:10,479
Speaker 2: not watching that.

1672
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,000
Speaker 1: Before we before we let you talk about working with

1673
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: your your Your son works with yourret he does.

1674
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:20,040
Speaker 2: None of my my daughter was on bar Rescue. My

1675
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:21,280
Speaker 2: son works with me.

1676
01:35:21,720 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 1: How's that?

1677
01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:28,840
Speaker 2: It's challenging. I want him to do more. But you

1678
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:36,920
Speaker 2: got to remember growing up in a house. And the

1679
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 2: thing is is that at one point you're Mark's son.

1680
01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:43,920
Speaker 2: Then at one point it became your Chase is dad.

1681
01:35:47,240 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 2: But he's taking the back seat. He wanted to go

1682
01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 2: I got, you know, make his own path and everything,

1683
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,280
Speaker 2: and he's doing what he does. Work with me still

1684
01:35:56,560 --> 01:36:00,640
Speaker 2: helps out. I wish it was more, but you know,

1685
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 2: you go through that. You know, parents and kids and everything.

1686
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:05,720
Speaker 2: None of my daughter, my daughters both work in the

1687
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:08,559
Speaker 2: same business. One works in Chicago and one works in

1688
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,599
Speaker 2: New York. And my other daughter is marketing and she's

1689
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 2: out of Toronto. So but you know, it's it is challenging,

1690
01:36:18,560 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 2: you know. I'm not easy to work with anyway, as

1691
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 2: animated as animated as I am here. And my biggest

1692
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:33,120
Speaker 2: problem is I want a joke and play, but I

1693
01:36:33,160 --> 01:36:38,200
Speaker 2: want work and I'm these nuts. I got cards that

1694
01:36:38,360 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 2: say these nuts literally, and we play a game. Everybody

1695
01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 2: gets a card at the beginning of the night and

1696
01:36:46,160 --> 01:36:48,360
Speaker 2: if I make you say who, then you got to

1697
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:49,960
Speaker 2: get into your card the person that ends up with

1698
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 2: the most cars, just to try to break the ice

1699
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 2: on some of the things we do, you know. And

1700
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:06,280
Speaker 2: Ark is a Staples, so we do try to attract everything.

1701
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:13,240
Speaker 2: So it's hard. I think it's going to grow even bigger.

1702
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:16,640
Speaker 2: I think I think AI is going to change the

1703
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:20,480
Speaker 2: world like people can't believe, and I think people don't understand.

1704
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:25,840
Speaker 1: We agree well appreciation some My brother tell the people

1705
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:27,760
Speaker 1: what to follow and uh, yeah, when you're gonna roll

1706
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 1: out the are you gonna roll out the membership?

1707
01:37:30,320 --> 01:37:35,280
Speaker 2: This chambership first, we got the park games coming, Yeah,

1708
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:37,839
Speaker 2: what is that? In the next two or three weeks.

1709
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: What is that? What is that?

1710
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 2: So you know you've heard the Beast Games. Yeah, and

1711
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:46,840
Speaker 2: we want to put competitions out there. We think it's

1712
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 2: going to be a big thing for the right now,

1713
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:53,679
Speaker 2: we're doing a seventy twenty thousand for second place, fifty

1714
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:56,599
Speaker 2: thousand for first. We have to invite you and then

1715
01:37:56,680 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 2: then you got to be invited. The app guy that

1716
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:01,640
Speaker 2: I got this making this other this guy is amazing.

1717
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:08,640
Speaker 2: He also made the membership app. But then, you know,

1718
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 2: we want to move these prisites up to like Beast

1719
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:16,240
Speaker 2: Gains one hundred two hundred, you know, and we want

1720
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:19,599
Speaker 2: to make it a competition like nothing anybody's ever seen.

1721
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:23,240
Speaker 2: The guy who did Beast Gains is I'm sleep one

1722
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:26,000
Speaker 2: night and I just roll over and I'm watching and

1723
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:28,439
Speaker 2: somehow and it's on my TV, and I'm like, what the.

1724
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:30,120
Speaker 1: Hell is this stuff?

1725
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 2: You know, but have you seen that first the first

1726
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 2: two episodes of season one.

1727
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:36,679
Speaker 1: Or just seen clips?

1728
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 2: You got to watch it. There's nothing like that. It's

1729
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:48,599
Speaker 2: just amazing to watch those first two episodes. I'm telling

1730
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:51,639
Speaker 2: you should watch them. And I know that's pushing somebody

1731
01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 2: else up, but that it is. It's competition. He was

1732
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:59,439
Speaker 2: smart with it, but he lost twenty million I think

1733
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 2: on the first one. But now he's on the third one.

1734
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 2: And again like Coachella, I think they were losing ten, fifteen,

1735
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 2: twenty million when they first started out. I hope they're

1736
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:12,720
Speaker 2: making money now. I don't know what their real numbers are,

1737
01:39:12,760 --> 01:39:14,120
Speaker 2: but I would imagine that they are.

1738
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:16,000
Speaker 1: It's like Fanatic vests.

1739
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 2: Also they sir, yep, but I don't know much about

1740
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 2: Fanatics tests. Well, it didn't make any money, no, it

1741
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,799
Speaker 2: lose admittedly, say he's lost seventeen million last year. Oh okay,

1742
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 2: but I mean.

1743
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 1: Tell me to call me. I got to wait for

1744
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: him to make money.

1745
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 2: When I tell you, the key to everything is that

1746
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:43,200
Speaker 2: penny equation.

1747
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:51,240
Speaker 11: When people leave your thing, what you do? They gotta

1748
01:39:51,280 --> 01:39:57,120
Speaker 11: go tell two people and it moves so quick like that.

1749
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:00,400
Speaker 2: When we get off camera, I got other one.

1750
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:04,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, thank man, all right, my brother, Well it's

1751
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 1: been a pleasure man, thanking for the hospitality. Peters greatly

1752
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: appreciated my brother.

1753
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1754
01:40:10,520 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 1: It's a rat