Digital Social Hour - How Vegas Dave Built a $10M Empire in Cabo | Vegas Dave DSH #1303

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

🌴 How did Vegas Dave turn setbacks into a $10M empire in Cabo? 🌟 In this exclusive episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, Vegas Dave shares his incredible journey — from battling casinos and lawsuits to building world-class luxury villas in Cabo. 🏖️   Discover how he overcame massive challenges, including a federal case, fraud, and corruption, to achieve success on his terms. 🚀 He opens up about his transformation from a showboating sports betting icon to a low-key entrepreneur focused on delivering unforgettable luxury experiences.   Vegas Dave also spills the secrets behind his sports betting success, his vision for the future, and why he believes content is king. 📈 Whether you're a fan of inspiring success stories or curious about the real estate game in Mexico, this episode is packed with valuable insights you can’t miss. 💡   👉 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺 Join the conversation and dive into the world of resilience, ambition, and success with Vegas Dave. Don’t miss out! 🔥   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - Vegas Dave Insights 01:22 - Federal Case & Family Health 02:02 - Betting on Royals 03:44 - Retirement Plans 04:57 - Future Endeavors 05:32 - Cabo Platinum Overview 08:54 - Reasons to Choose Cabo 11:05 - Trust Issues in the US 11:38 - Leaving Vegas Behind 12:38 - Importance of Content 13:29 - Peace and Profit Strategies 15:38 - Finding a Good Partner 17:44 - Sobriety Journey 19:01 - Hope for America 21:47 - Best Sports Betting Tips 23:11 - Stopping Livestreams 26:10 - Introduction to Bitcoin 30:07 - Second Documentary Insights 31:30 - Future Plans 33:35 - Personal Happiness 34:26 - Managing Court Stress 37:09 - Attorney’s Strategy 39:29 - Cabo Platinum Updates 40:30 - Meaning of Money to Dave 43:55 - Public Perception of Dave 46:08 - Where to Connect with Dave   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Vegas Dave https://www.instagram.com/itsvegasdave   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/   #luxurylivingcabo #cabodelsol #realestatemarket #caboinvestment #cabohousingmarket

I catch him and he's paying me back $10,000 a month on a payment plan. What kind of attorney does that? A corrupt one. Yeah. So it's tough, man. It's tough to do legal battles in Mexico, but I'm immune to it. I'm immune to bad news. I'm immune.

Every day someone's trying to steal from me, sue me, fuck me over. I'm used to it. I don't think anyone has it worse than me besides Trump and Tate. All right, guys. Someone I've talked to for years now on social media, Vegas Dave, how to bring him out of retirement, man. You've been low key lately. Yeah, very low life, just low key and staying out of the public right now.

Living a total different life from five years ago. Yeah, before it was all about the content to build the brand. And now, even though I'm quiet and low-key, the brand lives forever. Was that always a plan? Just make a bag and kind of slowly dip from social media? No, I thought I would never leave the scene. I was addicted to the waitresses. I was addicted to the fame, addicted to being on TV. I was addicted to that lifestyle, but then it switched where I'm the complete opposite now.

Was it a specific incident that caused you to make that switch? Yeah, it was the federal case when I beat the casinos and they didn't want to pay me. And I had to fight for 40 years in prison, 19 felonies. I fought that fed case for three years and beat it. But after that, I was like, fuck this, man. That was a wake up call and nothing in life's guaranteed. So I just wanted to kind of switch how I live my life. Yeah, because you were battling that case

while your mother was dealing with health issues. There was a lot going on at that time in your life, right? Yeah. She was a stage four pancreatic cancer at 80 years old. 2% chance of living and she beat it. I beat the case and then also hit that Royals bet that year. And then, you know, it's part of the journey. Yeah.

The Royal's bet was 2.5 million, right? Yeah. A hundred thousand before the season started. Crazy. That's nuts, dude I mean was that a record at the time? Yeah No, and they changed the rules and how they take future bets because the liability but no one thought the Royals would win they'd win a World Series for what 30 years and 20 you know, 100,000 won 2.5 million had big balls and I wrote it to the end

Yeah, and the casino wouldn't pay you. That's where the lawsuit started. Yeah. They made a false allegations. They want to pay me. And then when I stood up for my rights, they indicted me in 19 alleged felonies and try to put me in jail for 40 years. Holy crap. Which casino is that?

Wynn, Westgate, but you know what? They're all connected. They're all crooks. They're all connected. Yeah. You know, they make so much money and then once time to pay out, they don't want to pay out. It's really absurd. You know, they make so much money and then when it's time to pay out, they don't want to pay out. It's really absurd.

You can't really beat them here because even if someone's 80,000, it's going to cost 100,000 a lawyer up. The person loses no matter what. So this is happening to other people then. For sure. Jeez. That's why when you see people that can gamble in Las Vegas,

not saying they're a loser, but overall they're playing. They're a loser playing because the casinos are smart. They kick out anyone that wins and they will keep the people that continue to lose. Yeah, these days with AI, DraftKings will ban you in like two days. Yeah, technology's really changed the game. Yeah, has that affected your odds of winning

with AI and everything? No, for me, I just look at the opening lines. I just can read the lines, the opening lines and that's it. It's easy for me. Damn, yeah, it's like second nature because you've been doing it so long, right? 20 plus years, yeah. When was the first winning year on that journey?

Probably 2010, 2011. Oh, so 10 years in or? Yeah. Well, I was just bet. Yeah, I was a professional loser for 10 years. Okay. Yeah, I had to learn my lessons and recover some big losses.

And then I was able to learn money management, discipline, and mostly stick to basketball, baseball, and football. Do you feel like those sports are harder to win now? Book always has an advantage, but if you're great like me, and I'm not bragging, I'm the best in the world at baseball and hockey, I know that, you can beat them. That's why people pay me big bucks for my expertise.

If this is my last season I'm done. I'm retiring full-time. What makes you want to retire man? I mean I Never really enjoyed my life, you know, I'm just always Putting out fires every single day dealing with headaches and I worked so hard for what my friend Michelle gave me a book girl I would die was zero right? So I worked my ass off. I've never taken a vacation for ten years I've never been in a relationship for like five plus years I don't hang out with friends I had to sacrifice everything so this year I'm gonna travel and spend money so I finally flew private for the first time this year and I'm gonna take my parents to Japan tomorrow for the first vacation

in ten years so I'm gonna live life a little bit. And I mean, why work so much? I have enough money forever. I have no kids, no wife, no liability. So it's like, I might as well enjoy my life now. You never wanted kids? No, I just think it's a headache. It's a headache. And whatever I do, I want to be the best at.

And I'm going to be honest, I'm selfish. I work so hard. I want my time. And I can't dedicate 50 percent of my effort to a child when I know I need to dedicate 100 percent. Maybe if I fall in love, I mean, you know, people say you fall in love. Things change, but I've been in lust, but never in love. So we'll see. Yeah. So you're going to retire next year, man.

What's going to be the next thing then? Well, I'm semi-retired now, but I had to come fully out of sports because I'm running my three properties in Mexico. Basically, I have three resorts out there that I have to manage myself. Originally, I had a company that was going to manage it, but now I'm taking full control. Yeah, and there were some issues with that company, right? Yeah, Cabo Platinum, they were stealing from me.

So I trusted this company to manage my properties, and they were stealing from me. I thought they were stealing from me the last couple of years, but they've been stealing for me from day one since 2016. So I built my empire while people stole from me. So it's just been a crazy, crazy battle. You uncovered what? $6 million in fraud there?

Six million and we're finding out more. They set me up with builders, just set me up to build my home and the first builder stole 2 million. Second builder stole a good chunk and I still finished the house took me six years. But you know, it's crazy because you know, you think they're your friends and I was like, holy shit, you know, these people actually take me out to dinner and treat me. No one else. I always pay the bill come to find out it's my fucking money.

You know, I was like, they're so generous with my money, but the truth is going to come out and like all this could be settled last year. It could be settled tomorrow. They just provide the bank statements and the receipts, but they don't want to because it's pure fraud. It's crazy. Now they're out of business, right? Well, they're still running business.

There's something called Profeco, the government that protects the consumer in Mexico. They sealed up their office, put them on the news, and it really affected their business. And they want to blame it on me. Come on, man, you're stealing. If you're running an ethical business, then people stay with you no matter what.

So like with me in sports, people always used to hate, oh, he's a scam, this and that. Well, I'm in a results-driven business. People don't buy shit from me unless I produce winners. So I always tell people, you can make excuses, but if you run business the right way and you do the right thing and you're ethical, your business is going to sustain hard times.

Damn, that's nuts, man. We'll see how that plays out. You're fighting that in court right now, right? Yeah, I have a case in Mexico, case in the States, criminal and civil. I'm going all angles. And now they're crazy. Now they're panicking and she's swearing under oath

that she was my employee for three years. She filed a labor lawsuit. But they tried to embargo my house, like in a movie where they come down and knock down your house and take $300,000 worth of your furniture. Holy shit. Yeah, like movie type shit.

Because they don't fuck around with labor out there. They take it very serious in Mexico. So she lied and said that she was my employee for three years when she was my property manager, that I never paid her one time, lied and said that she was my employee for three years when she was my property manager, that I never paid her one time, she had a salary, and I never gave her a vacation. Well, I don't know anyone that works

for three years for free. It's just a lie after lie after lie, but sooner or later the truth is gonna come out and I'm gonna be victorious like I always am. Geez, and that's in Mexico, so you gotta learn Spanish. Yeah, it's very tough out there. I should learn Spanish, but I'm too busy working and grinding. That's on my bucket list.

I'm sure if you spend three months out there and just immerse yourself in the culture, you'll learn it. Yeah, but I get too much going on out there, you know, running these. I mean, I would never have built what I built out there if I knew I had to run it. Because now I'm coming, if someone told me, hey, you're going to stop sports and now you're going to run three resort hotels, basically, because these are like 40,000 square foot villas, I wouldn't have done it because I trust

if someone else would do that work for me. Yeah, no, I feel you'll not. You have the biggest villas out there in Cabo, right? Yeah, no one has what I have. I mean, I have Vegas Dave 3, just one Villa of the Year award that's on a private beach, 40,000 square feet, 13 bedrooms. We just had a little baby future check out. A lot of celebrities, a lot of athletes stay there. Vegas Dave 2 is the one that took me six years to build. That's 40,000 square feet. So no one has

those size villas and I have an experience meaning my staff is amazing, meaning the butlers, the maids, the chefs, the connoisseurs, the bartenders. I mean, you don't lift a finger. Everyone says, you know, your houses are beautiful, but the staff is remarkable. The service is unreal. What gave you that conviction to pick Cabo? Cause you could have picked anywhere, right?

You had a lot of money. Well, I was going to Cabo for 15 years, you know, when I was in the club, I'd win a big bet, take all the cocktail waitresses to Cabo, pop some bottles and record content. And after a while, someone was like, you know what? Instead of getting a room for everybody, rent a villa. And I prejudged, I was like,

how nice can a house be in Mexico? So when I got there, I was like, holy shit, it was like cribs back in the MTV, had an elevator. I was like, okay, one day when I become a real millionaire, I'm going to buy a villa. So when I really became a millionaire when the rolls won, the first thing I did was go to Mexico, bought Villa Vegas Dave one for only like 500,000.

Now it's worth 5 million. Damn, 10X. Yeah, and that house rents like clockwork at four grand a night. Holy crap. The other ones rent for 20,000 and 18 grand. So people have money, man. People spend, I got a guy that just checked in now,

seven nights, 21,000 a night. Geez. Yeah, Cabo's really blown up too. That was good timing for you. Yeah, because there's no loans out there, right? So even when the economy is bad in the world, there's really no recession in the real state of Mexico out there because there's no loans. There's no 95% loan, everything's cash. So you can't fake the world, there's really no recession in the real state of Mexico out there because there's no loans.

You know, there's no 95% loan, everyone, everything's cash. So you can't fake the funk out there. So when the market does great, Cabo like triples, three Xs in like two years. So you got to buy out right there? That's what you can't fake it out there. It's all cash only. I didn't know that.

Cash only. Wow, so you got to be a baller to live out there. Yeah, you can't fake it like out here. Yeah, you can't fake it. Yeah, out here you could just rent for like, a mansion for five K a baller to live out there. Yeah. You can't, you can't fake it like out here. Yeah. You can't fake it. Yeah. Out here you could just rent for like a mansion for five K a month or whatever. Yeah. They're cash only. Yeah. You miss Vegas though?

No, I hate vacant. I hate the States, man. I mean, I spent all my time in Cabo. I come back maybe once every four months to see my parents or they come out there a lot now because they know I'm not coming home. And I love it there besides a few bad apples, but there's always bad apples everywhere you go.

But the people are nice, the weather's great. Like I said, people are kind. I love the food and I'll actually leave and go places. Like in Vegas, I won't leave the house. There I'll wake up, I'll go running every morning and I'll run errands and I'll be outside. In the States, I just don't like it here. I think I lost all trust for the states after the Fed case. I don't blame you. I mean that could have put you in prison for how many years

were you facing on that? 40. 40? Jeez. In the last plea they tried to get me down to two to three years. I almost took it but I said fuck that man I'm not a crook and I walked it was great so. The odds were against you. The federal conviction rate is insane. Yeah, but I they knew from the beginning that I wasn't lying. They just didn't like the fact I was showboating. I was rubbing their faces, but I was just building the brand and building, you know, just producing content. Yeah. I mean, I won't blame you for leaving Vegas.

If you're banned from every casino, why would you live here? Yeah, but it's a blessing disguise because I've to a casino forever. But what's at a casino? Hookers, drugs, alcohol, gambling. Things that you don't want in your life to be successful. It was the biggest blessing in my life. I think, you know, if I tell the casinos, I thank you very much for that because I would not have the wealth I have. No way I could have made the money betting sports. It forced me to be a sports consultant pivot and that's where I made all my wealth, you know Everything I have is selling pics off Instagram. Believe or not. It's crazy to me when I look back and I see what I built I tell my parents can you believe I built all this off social media?

Not crazy. It's crazy, but I got in early. I was always telling people content is king People used to laugh at me for bringing a video camera to the nightclub. I videotaped every date I went on. I would go to Cabo and videotape. The rule is if I come, I videotape. And now content is the new currency. It's king.

And I knew it. When I think of who was the first person I remember selling sports picks, it's always you. You were early, man. Now everyone does it. There's so many characters now. Yeah, they're characters, right? Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, I don't really pay attention to what's going on You were early, man. Now everyone does it. There's so many characters now. Yeah, they're characters, right? Yeah.

Yeah, so I mean, I don't really pay attention to what's going on, you know, so. You haven't seen the Sean Perry, Mazzy beef? No, I don't pay attention to it. They're boxing right now. They are? Well, that's good. Well, promotions, whatever works for them, you know. As I told you before, when I walk away from this industry, I don't care

what anyone says. No one built what I built. No one has what I have. They can say whatever they want, but no one has the assets I have. So I think there's a lot of money for everyone to make. So I don't hate on anybody. I, there's enough money for everyone to make. So I don't pay attention to what anyone says.

Maybe five years ago, I would have got involved and ran my mouth. But right now I focus, let's stay in my own lane and I'd rather have peace you seem like you're very at peace or not. Yeah, I have peace anyone that doesn't bring me peace or profits Deuces, you know, I block people right away. I see a post block the person I mean someone flakes block I don't give second chances. Yeah, you block Steve Stevens probably Flakes, block, I don't give second chances. Yeah. So you block Steve Stevens. Probably. Yeah. It's a character too.

You know, I don't, I'm sure if he still talks, if he still talks about me, he has- He still does. Oh my God. He still talks about me? Yeah. Whatever, man. I have, whatever.

I guess I'm his hero. It is what it is, but I have nothing bad to say about Steve or Darren, whatever his name is, you know. We had choice words in the past, but what? 48 years old, man, I'm not beefing over someone on social media. I'm a fucking wealthy as fuck. I'm deciding what suntan oil I'm gonna put

on the beach today and what handicapper that 60 talking shit about me on the internet. That's ridiculous. I mean, you know what they say about, hey, it's always coming from below. Yeah. Yeah. But one day, you know, people change unless it's in their blood forever.

So I don't- Some people never change,'s in their blood forever. So I don't- Some people never change, dude. I don't know. I don't have time to hate, man. I wish I had time to like, look at people's situation. I, you know, like we stayed in contact for years, you know? Yeah. And I finally am now on this.

It was always respect with us. Yeah. I always respected your marketing because at the end of the day, hate on your bets or whatever, but you are a good marketer. You knew how to get views. Yeah, you know, and I was very honest and I didn't care.

You know, and I'm still, I still don't give a fuck. I still tell you the truth. I might be kinder and then my choice words are a little different now, but I'm still very cut by the same cloth. And I'll always tell you straight up. Some people don't like the honesty. A lot of the girls were crying, you know?

A lot of guys don't want to hear the truth. But if their feelings are hurt, it's because they're fucking insecure. Why were the girls crying? That was a dick. You know, I mean, I was, I don't know how I got away with what I did, but you know, giving girls Plan B smoothies

and like record everything and give them breadsticks from Olive Garden the next day. And they would love the content. I don't know how I got away with it, but I look back now and I'm just like, man, what a crazy life. And people meet me now as a business man. And they're like, I can't believe you were this person before.

I was like, I can't even remember those days. I was just crazy how I used to live. Yeah. You ever just want to settle down with one chick and ride into the sunset? I would find me a good girl. You all find it in Vegas. Maybe Cabo. I don't know how the girls are there. They all got kids and tattoos and it's not my thing, you know It's very hard. I'd rather have a good, you know, where you gonna find her? You gotta go to the fucking village Go to a village where they don't speak English. So, you know like in

Ukraine or some shit, but um, it's tough nowadays, you know, I work so hard, there's no way I'm going to sign a contract. Where a girl wakes up one day and the coconut falls off the tree from Vegas Day of Three. She's like, oh, I don't love you no more. And she gets half my shit. I will have a partnership. You can sleep on the second floor of the villa. You can actually sleep next door at the other villa. But I want my space.

I want my own bedroom. I want my own bed. we can live life and I'll treat you like my wife but I'm not signing no goddamn contract that's for sure. Wow you wouldn't even sleep with them at night? You love your privacy bro. Once a month maybe because I go I'm a machine I'm structured I go to bed at 910 I wake up at 3. Damn. I don't want to hear someone snoring I don't want to hear someone snoring. I don't want to hear someone talking, moving in bed. I need to sleep because I wake up like a machine at three.

So if I don't sleep well, my whole day is fucked because I've run a routine. Why do you get up so early? That's super fucking early. Just how I am. And I go running every morning. You know, you said I lost weight. I'm just the lightest I've been in a while.

You probably lost 70 pounds since I've seen that. I'm not even kidding, bro. Really? Bro, you were kind of chubby back in the day. Well, I drank a lot of, I drank and partied all day. Yeah. But I run three to five miles every morning, four o'clock in the morning.

So I don't love it, but I suffer. I tell myself through suffering, cause anytime I run, I haven't missed a day. I think I missed one day in three years. Damn. If I run, I haven't missed a day. I think I missed one day in three years. If I run, I can picture my day, strategize my day and I can focus. And when I'm running at four in the morning in the marina and people are just fishing, you're coming home, no one else is doing that shit. So I'm doing shit no one else in the world is willing to do.

That's why I have three villas and no one else has it because it all starts from your morning routine. Yeah. Are you still sober? Of course. I'll have three villas and no one else has it because it all starts from your morning routine. Yeah. Are you still sober? Of course. I'll have a shot here and there when I have guests, when I have guests visiting me, but dude, I don't party. I won't even date a girl that parties. I won't date a girl that drinks excessively.

Like I'm so different. Like I'm probably too strict with my rules, but I have a lot of non-negotiables because I worked hard to have what I have now And I don't want to lose it, you know, and I know what it's to take, you know I don't want a girl with social media. I don't want a girl that has girls night in Miami I don't want a girl that goes to EDC Coachella and all. Shots fired over here. But I've learned too that I also prejudge a lot, right? I'm very judgmental and I admit that but but that's, I admit my flaws as well.

Well, at least you're aware. I am. Yep. No, I mean, you're at a position now where you got to pick the right girl or else, like you said, you can lose half. Yeah. And I'm fine being alone. I love being alone. I have a little Maltese and that thing doesn't talk back. And it goes everywhere I want to go. They have a VIP chair from every table in Mexico, eats filet mignon every night.

You know, I'm cool with the dog, man. And then when I want to see people, I just pick up the phone and people fly the next day. So I control my ecosystem. If I want to turn it on, I turn it on. If I want silence, I don't answer the phone. No one can get hold of me. Does Trump winning make you think there's hope

for the United States? Well, yeah, but it's going to take time to change. Then what's going to happen after four years? He can't come back. You know, people understand we got a guy that's filthy rich that doesn't have to do this and does it. You know, it's just I'm not going to get into politics. I'm just saying that he's the person that can do it. And I'm a capitalist just like him.

Yeah. But I don't want to get into politics and into that thing. Don't want to get you canceled there. Yeah, but I'm just saying, but he knows what he's doing. You don't become where he is in life by making poor choices. Yeah. I'm happy you're finally taking a vacation, man. 10 years is impressive.

I thought my streak was impressive. I went five years. Five? Yeah, I don't have time. You know, I got sports people. They depend on me every day to pick winners. They're paying me thousands of dollars a day. I got to produce. You know, they're trusting me.

And number two, I got, what, 70, 80 million dollars in real estate that I got to manage now because people were stealing from me. So I have to manage the homes. So, but my parents are getting older and I always want to take my mom to Japan because my mom's Japanese. So I'm taking my parents to Japan tomorrow for two weeks

and I'm shutting off. So that's why I called you. I'm in town for two days. Let's do this. And I'm out. I love it, man. How's the March Madness picks been going? You've been crushing it?

Yeah. Very, very, very good. Very easy for me. I feel like that's the toughest one though cause you never know who's going to upset. I do a lot of second half. I watch the first half. And then when the line comes out, I can tell.

Oh, that makes sense. I read the lines very well. Yeah. So you don't know who's going to win at all. You kind of wait till halftime. Yeah. It might not be the sexiest thing, but I'm focused on making people money.

Yeah. You know, I care about them paying me and then making money. Not what's attractive. Yeah. I hope Duke wins it. I'm a big fan of their team this year. Duke, yeah. They have a big legacy.

Dude, they're looking nice this year. Coop, what's the white kid's name? Is it Coop? Yeah. He's a good. He might be a problem and then be a... He stays injury free and he doesn't make poor choices. Remember, you're just one bad choice and one bad decision from

fucking up your whole life. Yeah. And these kids are young. So when they get money thrown on their face, it's very tough to make the right decisions. Sometimes you think that NIL helped or hurt athletes helped. They deserve it.

What's the difference over 18 or going pro at 21? If you're athletic and God gave you that ability and blessed you that ability, you got to capitalize. I agree, cause barely any of them go pro. Yeah, they got to make their money. So at least make money for four years in high school, college or whatever. And if you don't make the league,

at least you made six, seven figures. Yeah, cause a lot of them sacrificed a lot. It's just very hard to make it to that elite top tier. So at least they can monetize it. So I approve of that. Absolutely. You said baseball is your best sport, right? Correct.

You've been crushing it this year? Well, season starts tomorrow, actually. Dollar starts tomorrow. But I don't play for the first couple of weeks. I want to look at the numbers, look at the lines, and then I wait to about three, week three or four. I'm very patient, very methodical. Before, I'd be like, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Now I'm just like, listen, here's my pace. If you want to be with me, relax. I got this, just trust me. And we're very methodical. That's smart, because you see people betting on like ping pong and like badminton and shit. Cricket, volleyball, degenerate span, degenerates. You know, and I'm glad I'm transitioning from the sports betting world

into my villas in Cabo. Because in my business right now for 20 years, I deal with degenerates. They all lie. They have to lie to their wife what they're doing. Why is the money missing? Where'd it go? Lie after lie after lie, okay?

Most of them drink, most of them do drugs, most of them just hang out at a casino all day. With my villas, I get to give people an experience. Everyone leaves going, holy shit, that was the best vacation of my life. So there's some, I have gratitude towards, you know, where I'm at right now in life because I get to deliver an experience. Do I make a shit ton of money?

Yes. But I actually made way more money in sports. Really? I mean, I had days where I made $500,000 a day. Holy shit. That's insane. I used to stream on Instagram for seven hours straight with a goat hat on and a mask.

I remember those days. You know, I'd get top stream at 20, 30,000 streams live, but I was consistent. But I can't do that no more. Why? Because I hate most people But I can't do that no more. Why? Because I hate most people. I can't deal with people. And I'm not willing to do that no more.

So I don't deserve to make that kind of money again because I'm not willing to put that work in. You were live streaming before it was big. Yeah, it was one of the first big ones. I mean, if I would have stayed, I could have got huge. But after my last relationship, I think that's the one that made me change where I don't want to be the spotlight no more.

Was that the supermodel? Yeah, yeah, it was just it was cool TMZ and all that shit. But after a while while you're just like I The Lakers game was a pinnacle and after the Lakers and the Birkins, I was done with my marketing Was it too expensive a lifestyle to date that woman? No, it's just it was a headache. You know, it was just to me, a partner in a relationship, you got to give them attention. I was still building my business. But yeah, you know, having a hot chick is great.

But at the end of the day, it's just more about character, not saying she had a bad character. It just wasn't a great fit for me. Yeah, well, usually the more attractive ones lack personality from my experience. Yeah, this one was a smart one too, but it just wasn't a good fit and it is what it is. She was just a chapter in my life that God brought and she helped me change my life for the positive and I think she's dating Oscar now De La Hoya and

Damn! Yeah, they're together and that's great. She deserves someone to love her. I just wasn't the guy. Was that a quick rebound for her or like? I have no ideas. I just found out like a year ago. You had her blocked probably. Yeah, I blocked her as soon as she packed up her shit, blocked from everything. No one can ever get hold of me.

Once I'm done, I'm done. Damn. So you don't forgive easily. No, I'm too busy, man. You fucked me once, you're going to fuck me again. And if you give me a headache once, you're going to give me another headache again. You lied to me once, I know you're going to lie.

People don't change. You don't think so? They can, and they really want to. But most people don't want to. Agreed. Yeah, most people will not. I know you're gonna lie. People don't change. You don't think so? They can, and they really want to, but most people don't want to. Agreed. Yeah, most people will not. You can do anything you want. I changed, but it was discipline.

Can you unfollow everyone from social media? Can you not drink? Can you not date? Fuck, I probably had sex once in two years from going out every single night. Yeah. You know? Run every morning at 4 a.m.

All I eat is egg whites all fucking day. Do I like it? No. But it's what it takes to get in shape. It's what it takes to be a 1% of a 1%. Turn down every invite, every vacation, every social event is no, no, no, no, no. You gotta learn to say no to everyone else

and say yes yourself if you wanna get up there. But everyone says they wanna be up there, but no one's willing to sacrifice. And not many are. They say they are, but they're not. No, they're not. Everyone's full of shit. No, I had to sacrifice my health, my personal friendships.

Oh yeah, say bye to friendship. Family. Everything, man. You gotta, I was alone for four to five years, but guess what? Four to five years went by so fast. I'm amazed at what I built, and 99% of the people are still doing the same fucking shit.

No growth and still doing nothing with their lives. Yeah. Yeah. You always early or like, how did you get that insight to be early to everything? Vision, gut. I have a very good gut feeling. I really believe I have two good guardian angels and I just go with my gut,

help me with my investments, crypto when we used to talk, baseball cards, sports betting, help me with my investments. Crypto when we used to talk, baseball cards, sports betting, you know, the predictions. Women got me out of relationships before it's too late. So it's like, I just have a very good intuition. I trust my gut and I don't second guess it. Once I get that bad feeling, I'm out, blocked.

Yeah, because you said multiple world records. You also got the world record for largest sports card sale, right? Yeah, the Mike Trout card. Four million dollar sale. Yeah, that Mike Trout card. $4 million sale. Yeah, that's insane. That's when I was popping on content. You know, I bought that rookie for $400,000 on eBay,

posted on YouTube and Instagram that I was going to break the Honus Wagner record, which was the biggest baseball card payout in the world for what, a hundred years. Maverin laughed. Two years later, executed,, sold it for four million. Well done because the market crashed out for that too. And I told people it would crash.

Sold it, I said it's going to crash. Everyone was mad and I was like, I'm just keeping it real and it crashed. You timed it well. You also crushed it in crypto too. Yeah, I love crypto. It's the only thing that I'm passionate about now. You know, I know that crypto is the future.

Everything's blockchain. I don't trust the dollar right now. Well, dollar's going to get weaker with Trump and risk assets are going to go through the roof. But what they're going to do is what I said years ago, they're going to make a digital currency, stablecoin, which is a CBDC. And everyone's going to have to convert from dollars to digital. They'll find a way to fool all the peasants and say, hey, we'll let you not pay taxes. Turn in all your cash for digital dollars. Everyone's gonna say, okay,

and they're gonna control the digital dollar. They can track it, put an expiration date. If they want the economy to boom, you have to spend it or it's gonna be taken away. They can make sure, have control. You, hey Sean, you've been to Cabo 10 times this year. You don't need another vacation. We're going to shut off your flying abilities

with purchasing abilities. So once people find out once everything's digital and it's all controlled, then they're going to flock to Bitcoin because Bitcoin is the only pure form of democracy for currency. By then it'll be half a million to million dollars. Sounds like communism.

Jeez, that's scary. You're a big believer in crypto. Big, yeah. I mean, I don't believe in like currencies. All of them fail. If you study all of the currencies and all of history, they always fail. Yeah, I mean, I'm big into blockchain

and I just really believe in crypto. It's just so easy. Like if you want to send money to someone in Mexico, instant with crypto. Easy, but people can't do it. I mean, as I always tell people, anyone that does crypto, they're either very intelligent or wealthy.

Stupid and broke people don't do crypto. I don't know any dumb person that's broke that does crypto. Maybe the meme coin people. Yeah, but not the real ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I stick to like the top five, 10 you big on any certain coins or no near I heard of that one. I've near avalanche a little bit of Aave. But again, all those cryptos don't do jack shit. The other day, bitcoins were the money's at. So what are you gonna use a near token for? What do you use a suey token for?

What do you use an avalanche token for? Yeah's all to make money. It's all hypothetical, yeah. The only thing that really has intrinsic value is Bitcoin. And ETH has a purpose too. But everyone's greedy, right? So you want to make those big multiples. But Bitcoin is where I use it every day. When did you first get into Bitcoin? When I started talking to you probably 2021.

So the second bull run? Yeah. If I knew what I knew, and I was around 2017, I would have been a billionaire. Had big balls, right? Yeah. I think you put a million in, right? Just to start for fun.

Yeah. Just for fun. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I was like, here's a million. Tell me how to do this shit. I got crushed. I learned. Got crushed.

Learned. And now I'm crushing it now because you got to take those wounds and be resilient. Most people quit. Absolutely. You got to figure shit out. You're working on a second documentary right now? Yeah.

They really want to talk about how I got to where I'm at right now, how I just disappeared. And what's like to build in Mexico and go through criminal lawsuits in Mexico and civil lawsuits in Mexico and find out everyone's stealing from you and still build an empire and still be victorious. So it's something I really didn't want to do, but so many people after hearing the story have come to me. So I have my entertainment attorneys working on a proposal with a big network and they say I'm good for TV, so for a TV series. So we'll see.

I mean, your first movie did well, 2.5 million on YouTube alone. Yeah, it was good. It really talked about and shared about David Wansha, the person you see now versus Vegas Dave, the brand where everyone just saw me at the clubs. But it ended in 2021. So the next chapter where I'm at right now is a whole different lifestyle,

whole different perception of life and a whole different lifestyle, whole different perception of life and a whole different just way of living. So, you know, I moved very fast, but it was all different choices. And it's very hard to build another country, you know, because out there things can be corrupt. You know, you can pay people to do shit. Like it's it's you got to know the right people. It takes a lot of balls to do what I did, but I always find a way and always figure it out. I love it. What's the next focus for you? Is it the villas?

Just the villas and happiness. I mean, I sold all my beachfront lots. I got a couple left. I don't want to build them more. I had oceanfront lots. I was going to build a hotel, but after the property manager stealing for me and the builder stealing from me, I don't need more money.

Just selling everything, peace. I make good money. I just want to have happiness. I want to travel. And hopefully, like you said, find a good girl. You know, one good one. I hope you do find one, bro. I'll put a bounty right now, $100,000.

I will, I'll pay you $100,000 if you find me a good guy. What are your qualifications? No kids. Okay. 25 to 32. That's young for you. Well, I don't want an older one.

Okay, because you want kids or? No, it's just because the older ones in 10 years are going to age fast. I'm going to, you know, I just, listen, they look like Michelle, maybe. No, but age kind of matters. but if the personality matches, it matches. But ideally, no cats, no cigarettes, no drugs, respectful to their parents. I like that one.

Respect, honesty, a good communicator, and I prefer not married before. I don't want baby daddy drama and shit like that. Virgin. No. Virgin the last three years maybe. But I'm very picky so it is what it is. But if you can find me one I'll pay $100,000. For 100K I might start looking.

100K, Bitcoin too. Yeah if you're watching this send me your applications guys. I'll take 100K Bitcoin. I did Millionaire Matchmaker but 10 10 years ago, that was the crazy episode. But I wasn't in the right. How does that show work? They put millionaires on there and they brought girls and I told them, oh, they're all gross.

Get them away. And she chased me. Patty chased me out. That's when I was crazy back then. They had like a million views on that. And now she's like, you're terrible. I was like, I said, I wanted this, this and that. And she's like, you're only going to end up, I said, I wanted this, this and that. And she's like, you're only going to end up

with a cocktail waitress. Cause before that's all I wanted. Another thing, they can't be a cocktail waitress. You know too much about those women. Yeah, that's just not my thing no more. Yeah. You said you're chasing happiness. Are you happy right now or no? Yeah, I'm very, I'm at peace, man.

I'm very happy. Everyone that's supposed to be in my life is in my life. I pray every day to bring the right people in my life, get the wrong people out. So I knew you were a good choice today because God wouldn't have me connect with you. That's how spiritual I am. You know, I trust my gut.

So I didn't know you believe in God. Yeah, I have to for what I have. I've never seen you post about religion or anything. I don't post about that or politics, but I pray every single day, morning and night. I'm grateful when I asked him to bring justice in my court cases and To bring the right people my life get the wrong people out and to look over my parents and my dog I love it the Maltese. Yeah, and people that are close to me. I love Maltese dude. They're so innocent man

Yeah, I could have Malteseers forever. I'm fine with that. Yeah. How do you deal with the stress of court? Because that is probably the most stressful thing in life. Especially when the system is one attorney I'm going against in Vegas, the guy just lies. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Other attorneys in Mexico steal.

I caught one Mexican attorney stealing from me. I catch him. And now he's paying me back $10,000 a month on a payment plan. What kind of attorney does that? A corrupt one. So it's tough, man. It's tough to do legal battles in Mexico, but I'm immune to it. I'm immune to bad news. I'm immune. Every day someone's trying to steal from me, sue me, fuck me over. I'm used to it. I don't think anyone has it worse than me besides Trump

and Tate. Trump, Tate, then me. I get fucked with every fucking day. Every day. But I'm used to it. I don't think anyone has it worse than me besides Trump and Tate. Trump, Tate, then me. I get fucked with every fucking day. Every day. But I'm immune to it. It's just a chess game. I don't let it bother me. That's why whoever I battle in court, they're going to lose because you know what? They don't, they can't fight it. They don't have the resources to fight it. And most people that are doing it say, after the money. I'm always the defendant. I'm always the one getting fucked. And most people when they're in a lawsuit, they can't produce income as well.

So the business goes stagnant and a year from now it falls apart. So while I'm fighting lawsuits, I'm also waking up at three, four in the morning, producing income so my business never falls apart. So to answer your question of why do I wake up so early, I have to squeeze every fucking hour out of the day. Damn, that is nuts, dude.

So you've just been hit with so much bad news, you're just numb to it. Immune to it. Nothing surprised me. Like three days, I had three peaceful days and I told my assistant Michelle, man, it's been three days of good shit. Something bad is about to happen.

Then find out my attorney in Mexico's lying behind my back. Wow. You know, so it's just like another, but and then I ordered an Escalade from Miami because I wanted to get an SUV in Cabo and it gets stolen. What? Yeah, from- On the way there?

On the way there, so now there's an insurance claim. My assistant's like, Señor, like how do you like, I'm like, don't worry about it, we'll figure it out. Like I'm immune to it. I can't focus on bad shit. I just got to keep moving forward. So it's like, I'm very resilient and I'm used to bad news if I have too much good news something is suspicious

Would you say you're paranoid living kind of on edge? No, I'm confident. I'm confident. I'm not paranoid. I'm just self-aware and nothing can fool me Because I've seen everyone lie to my face. I've seen people that I trusted lie. I've seen people turn on people I've seen it all yeah, and I'm always sober. I'm always alert So I can't be fooled you might fool me and I'll play stupid like with my couple attorneys I have now I know they're lying to me. I'll make my chest move when it's right but people don't Don't know what it's like to deal with corruption and especially in other country.

But at the end of the day, there's good and bad in every country. Yeah. So what was your attorney's angle? Like, were they making money somehow or work with the other party? I'm paying you to represent me, Sean. Yeah. I pay you and then you take a bribe from the other party. So they just offered more than you basically. And then pretend you're still working with me. Damn. And you, how'd you catch that? That my ways. Geez. But do I get mad? No. Do I say anything? No. I just move on in silence. I don't say goodbye.

Block, delete. Thank you. Because what? Everything's a learning lesson. There's a reason why everything happens. Like how I caught my property manager stealing from me I knew it was off but One their employees came over and I had to teach him crypto. Mm-hmm and His name is Skyler. He came over and I was tired because I went out to dinner late that night I should never do crypto when you're tired He came over I showed him and I clicked a link, a metamask

and it was a hack. I lost $3 million in crypto. This is a year ago, last April. I have an FBI report right now for $3 million. Drained it. And I was pissed and very upset. But the next day I got over and I said, God, why would you do this to me? There is a reason. There is a reason for this. And it made me look at my invoices better. You know, every month they would send me invoices and I would say, where's the receipts? Where's the information?

And they'd be like, I'll give it to you later. Or they would say they're sick with cancer or they would make up excuses of why not to give it to me. But when that three million was taken, I had to tighten up the belt. I was like, hey, listen, I want everything you've been promising me. Our contract states receipts, financial documents monthly. I want everything by the state or we're parting ways. They would never give it to me. Instead, they try to break in my house with

a restraining order on them. And they try to flip it on me saying like they're the victims and that they're my employees and I never paid them. Just scams, man. But what I'm saying is that if it wasn't for that crypto hack, I might have not put my foot down all the way. So I will take that trade every day, get kicked in the nuts and lose $3 million and be fucking pissed. Or keep that money and have someone steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from you every single month. They control the income. I never got to meet the people running my homes. They made up the prices. They made up the marketing. They tried to change the name of the home. They had control of everything.

Come to find out, they were trying to get my house behind my back. Wow. They were signing power of attorneys behind my back. They would have stole everything from me. That's why for this case, it's a principle. There's no mercy. I don't want their money.

I want them to go to jail because they're still stealing. Cabo Platinum, Danette Reed, Michonne Andre, they're still stealing. There's other people that have houses in Cabo. They're older, 70, 80. They don't follow social media. These people rent their homes out. Don't even tell them they're renting it. Don't provide them receipts and they're still stealing.

So to me, it's principle, man. It's principle. It's principle. It's principle. And I'm doing this for the community and because no one else wants to stand up and I have to do it. It's not about the money.

It's the principle for me. Yeah. Everything happens for a reason, right? Correct. Yeah. You getting hacked. You would have never found these people scamming you. How did they get so much control over everything? Was it gradual? Yeah. They're very good.

You know, they kid my parents birthday party. What they do is they, they're the real estate agent know, they kid my parents birthday party. What they do is they're the real estate agent. Scams elaborate, it's brilliant. They sell you the home, the real estate agent. Then they sell you in the design work. They don't produce receipts and bank statements. They're supposed to only charge 20% markup, but she makes up fake invoices.

So they make money off there. And then they rent your homes, but don't provide the bank statements of what they really rented. So if the house rents for 20,000 a night, like, oh, the person had cancer. I feel bad for him. I only collected 10 grand. Well, they're pocketing the other 10 grand a night. Plus they make 20% commission. So they get you on that.

And then when you catch them stealing, you're for most people want peace. So like, fuck it, I'm out of Mexico. I don't want this drama. So they sell your house and make another commission on the real estate sale. Wow. And they tell you, we're going to extradite you out of the country. If you don't keep your mouth shut. They leave voice recordings of my parents answer machine.

We're going to extradite your son out of the country. If he doesn't keep his mouth shut. Holy crap. Yeah. I got all that on recording and like, everyone else runs away. I'm the only one has the balls to fight it. And people know now know the truth. And the truth is coming out about Cabo Platinum.

And it's not defamation. These are facts. So they're making more than you on your own property. It's not crazy. They wanted to change the name. I found out they were booking the homes without when I wasn't there and didn't report it. It's just a scam.

Damn. Big scam. And the fucked up thing is that I trusted them, so I don't really trust people no more. I don't blame you, geez. I get fucked over by everybody, but at the end of the day, it's my fault, because you know what? I grew so fast, and I should have took a step back

and went slower, but let them control my house, let them control my income. It's my homes. I should get the income and then I pay you. But I let them control everything. As the property managers, my design managers, everything they had full control and they were taking vacations all over the world with my money.

That's the problem when you're going too fast. You start like giving control up to friends, to coworkers or whatever. That's why right now I'm done. I sell all the other land. I got three villas. I don't need no more. I can't spend 500,000 a month in rental income.

I don't spend money. You know, like I don't buy anything anymore. I'm very- You just stack your bag right now? Dude, I don't do anything. Like this watch is from five years ago. I don't buy no more jewelry. I shop at Ross.

I went to Ross the other day for Japan, 500 bucks. I'm very simple. I don't care. Why are you making all this money then? If you don't spend it. Well, now I had it's coming in because of all the hard work I put in the rental income. Yeah.

It comes in, I can't even spend the damn money. That's why I said, okay, we'll go to Japan. Okay, I'll fly private experiences. But now I'm having groups of friends come. So I've already had three groups of friends come. Next month, I have my friends from Hawaii So I've already had three groups of friends come. Next month I have my friends from Hawaii that I've known for 20 years. Because now I can breathe.

Before I was grind, grind, grind. Now I'm like, okay. Bring, and everyone, all my friends have wives and kids. I'm the only single one. So they're all coming with their kids to see me. And, you know, now I'm enjoying my life and I've controlled my homes. And I think I love to give people experiences.

You know, I'm very generous to the right people, but I've been generous to the wrong people. And that's my flaws that I do have a big heart, even though people think I'm a dick, I do, I trust too much. There is that stigma about you that you're a dick, you're an asshole. I'm just blunt and I don't tolerate bullshit. And people confuse that with being a dick sometimes.

Yeah, they don't like honesty, But I was a dick before too. But right now, I mean, it's just a brutally honest. Either you like me or you don't. I don't give a fuck. It is what it is. You can't please everyone. No, I'm not. I'm not trying to live to please everyone.

I've never been a people pleaser. I just need that one person to believe in me. I only need one person to ride with me. That's it. You only need one to believe. One to ride. The thing else is just extra baggage. Who was that for you when you were coming up?

Was it your mom? My parents. That's why I tell any girl if I date, hey, when I'm in Vegas, I live with my mom and dad. I will stay with them until they pass away. You think it's gay that I live with a multimillionaire lives with their parents? Well, I have respect and honesty and integrity because every time I hit rock bottom, they bailed me out.

Every time I wanted to quit, they said, don't quit in the dreams. I was not gonna fight the lawsuit in Mexico. I was like I'm tired of this bullshit. My parents said fuck that bitch. She stole. We know, my dad's like I know she was stealing from you from day one. We didn't want to tell you. Damn. You go back and you fight that bitch for us. My dad never swears. So, De'Nette Reed, you're going down. I'm doing this for my parents because they, Mishan and De'Nette Reed, you're going down. I'm doing this for my parents because they, Michonne and Danette King, my parents' 90th birthday surprise party, anniversaries,

while they're stealing from me. Holy shit. And they would've stole everything. They saw me work every day, 18 hours a day. And when the first builder stole two million, come to find out, she set me up with that builder and they split the profit. So she made a million off that

Yeah, I don't know how much she made. I thought she was just stealing the last two years. I'd agree She's been stealing since 2016. Holy watch me cry When I got wiped out to zero had a work make $150,000 a month payments the house to rebuild it or get shut down and They just laugh behind my back and pretend to be my friends and take me out to dinner with my fucking money. That's nuts. And then sue me that they are my employee. When everyone knows you manage my homes.

Now the truth is coming out. So now she's posting pictures that she's dying of cancer. So she's saying she has cancer. She's been saying she has cancer for eight years. Anytime she gets pushed against the wall, she pulls the cancer card out. Wow. It's fucked up. I wonder if there's a way to prove that.

I don't know anyone that gets cancer treatments and goes to Vegas the next day. You know, she gets a brain tumor removed and then she's in Vegas the next day. Geez. It's just a big scam, man. It's literally an American Greed episode. They might have to make this into a film. You would never believe people can be so conniving. I'm living it right now. Crazy. Well, I hope you beat that, man. I will. 100%. They might have to make this into a film. You would never believe people can be so conniving.

I'm living it right now. Crazy. Well, I hope you beat that man. I will. 100%. Where else can people support you and keep up with you? I'm really not that public anymore. Instagram. If you want to see my villas, VillaVegasDave.com, VillaVegasDave.com. Three villas. Best experience of your lifetime. Chefs, maids, butlers. We just had Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt come out there

They traveled all over the world and said it's the most beautiful place ever been to Even Bradley them came out there. I had billionaires stay at the house and they're like, this is the nicest house I've ever seen So I'm very proud of the homes. I worked very hard for them. And that's why I have what I have You know, I always tell people you want big things, expect big problems. You don't want big problems. Have small things. So I'm still dealing with putting out fires of having big things. But it's worth it. I'm living life. I'm loving life.

I'm happy. I'm in peace. And I'm ready for the next stage of my career. Love it, man. Well, I hope you enjoy Japan with the family. And I'll see you in Cabo next time. For sure. I'm holding you to that. All right. Let's do it, guys. Check them out. See you next time.