FULL SEND PODCAST - David Grutman x Nelk Boys | Ep. 16

Episode Date: November 10, 2021

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When I got here, our friend had a bikini-strapped tank top on. Oh, my God. Side boob, underboob, the whole thing. Brad loves, yeah, Brad's. So we made him do a costume change. Brad loves showing off the skin and shit. We should talk about the first time we met when I had a backpack on at Komoto. He was not happy with me there.

Yeah, I think you're going to have to earn your friendship back with Dave at the end of this podcast, you know? So I have a big thing against backpacks. Really? It's kind of my thing. I trip on them in the DJ booth so I make sure that, of course, no DJ is allowed to bring a backpack inside the DJ booth. And I always love how the tour manager looks at me like I'm crazy. And I'm like, yeah, I just hate the backpack.

Is it like a, like a, but then to see you walk through Komodo with like the beach backpack, which is not even like a normal backpack. Like what do you need a backpack for a live? It was a traveling. I didn't have time to leave it at a hotel. That's what it was. I don't buy that. I think it's a little weird.

I didn't want to bring it. It was like you just got off the beach, though. It was like the one that's ropes, you know, the ropes with the little satchelah. So it wasn't like a full-on backpack. It was like a beach backpack. Are you making backpacks allowed to the establishment? No. No.

We're anti-backpacks. So why was he allowed to fucking walk in with a backpack? I don't know. He's a big guy. They were probably afraid. They let me in. But when I saw it, I freaked out, as you know. Well, yo, today, guys, we're at Winkers Diner, right?

This is a new spot. When did this open up? We opened like six weeks ago. We have Winkers here. and sushi fly chicken next door and then a bakery called Tooth Ferry on the side of the building. It's an old firestone.

Amazing, by the way. I just crushed the Cobb salad. It was incredible. Yeah, we already some food. How many spots you got in Miami? A lot. Yeah, we were just asking about this, actually. I want to tell the audience, too.

For you guys that don't know, this is Dave. Doing all this happy dad stuff. We get to meet a lot of people in the business side of things. And Dave's one of the people that we've met and stuff. And it's been really cool to work with them. We lunched. You're basically, when I heard about you and Johnny and Sam, they said you're the guy that, like, runs Miami.

Yeah, he's not the king of Miami seems like that. Is that how people kind of describe you and stuff? I mean, I don't like to be so domesticated like that and just an area. But listen, Miami's a great city. I've definitely tried to make my mark on this. And I really believe in the city, right? I push not just my places, but Miami. But Dave owns, like, a ton of restaurants, all the dopest spots in Miami.

What, Liv. Liv, Story, Komodo, Swan, Poppy Steak. Winkers, Sushi Flight Chicken Planta, OTO I don't know, some other things. Basically the hottest spot to Miami. Strawberry Moon and the Good Time Hotel that I just opened with Farrell, which is on fire.

Which one is the most profitable? Most profitable restaurant I have per square foot is poppy steak by far, but the most profitable overall is Komodo. Oh, I'm sorry, Liv is... Live is always going. Live, they'll do VH1 specials about me in 20 years because of Liv.

It's an amazing space. I'm really curious. How did you get started on all this? So it's a great story, guys. I went to University of Florida. I graduated with my finance degree. I'm from Naples, Florida, a very small retirement community

on the other side of Naples. I mean, on the other side of Florida. I was going to go back there and do title insurance, but I said, let me bartend for a year. And the only place I could get a job bartending was at a restaurant in the Avengera Mall. So I'm a guy that started off in a bartending in a mall. And from there, I got passionate about the hospitality business

and took it from there. do that for? I bartended for probably two years. And then I, here's the best part. And like, how old are you like at that point? 21 years. Wait, wait, it gets better. I was making a hundred grand a year as a bartender. But they said, I wanted to become a manager because I wanted to be a leader. And they said, well, that pays $33,000 a year. And I said, great. So I invested in myself. So guys. Wait, so you took that pay cut because you wanted to learn. Of course, because I wanted to go up that step. Listen, there's only a, there's a longevity for, for certain jobs. And if you kind of believe in yourself. It's okay to take that step

back and learn. So then what? You're bartending? How long do you do that for? I do that for two years and I become a manager and then a general manager. Then I get into the marketing and the nightclub business and then I start running clubs. And that's a quick jump though. Like how did you do that?

It's a long time, guys. It's not an overnight success. Everyone's like, wow, you just opened this restaurant. It killed it. I mean, Komoto took us two years to design and build. It took me three years to pay back my investors. So that's five years. you get to that point, like when did you say I want to own a restaurant or like how to, you know?

So I was owning nightclubs and I figured for me I wanted to create an ecosystem within the hospitality business because I wanted to be that touching point for everyone that comes to Miami. So but how did you get the initial investment? How did you convince someone to leave it? I said I went to people that I knew that would kind of invest in me and not so much the restaurant because listen, I had never done a restaurant before.

I went to find Komodos in a kind of a weird office building on Brickle. At that time, no one was really going to Brickle. But the condo crash had just happened. I knew a lot of my clients were renting apartments now. Young professionals were moving to that area. I figure, what a great spot to be. And for me, I always want to set the trend instead of following

it. So you're just like, did you just buy the space? So I, we leased the space. Lise the money, $10 million. Open commoto, and it's, you know, not the way, it's the hottest restaurant. How did you raise $10 million? How did you get people to believe in you? I don't understand that. Because I kind of have that. People want to believe in me.

He's swag, Bradley. No, I'm not saying he doesn't. I'm just trying to like, for the people listening, I don't. It's such a big step. You have to find those people that believe in you. They didn't buy into the restaurant. They bought into me. Yeah.

And I think they thought I'd figure it out. Yeah, because what I've seen, like, just some stuff on your social media, like, you seem like a very, like, well-versed people person. Right. More so than anything. And I've noticed that most business owners aren't the people who are, like, on the front lines being like, oh, you know, out there, taking photos and doing that and you've you've done this i know at least my experience with you at live um what made you think that i'll just talk about currently what made you think that social media had like a space for you because obviously you're successful regardless without it your business is

still will be what made you think social media was important for you social media is probably the biggest marketing tool we have i mean listen back in the day when we you know we focused so much on PR people magazine us weekly all the big magazines right if you look at their viewership it doesn't even come close to like one post from you guys or one you know or one story from us so to know that those are the numbers that I had to deal with social media gets me that reach right away and for me my social media is very authentic it's me it's not like I have somebody in the office that goes let me do your social media for you it's me which means I embrace my faults and and I think that's what's endearing to people is because I don't high like I was a chubby kid that kind of lost weight

and now I play Fennis and I integrate everything together. So with Komodo, you designed it, like you came up with all the creative. So we worked with a design firm, I Crave. And we work with a bunch of design firms for each restaurant. And it's part of the creative process is they always start at one spot where they give you one idea and one vision. And you look and you go, are you fucking crazy?

And then what you end up is what you have today, right, in every spot. Like if you look at Poppy Steak, when we went first to design, that restaurant. They would show a subway tiles and cowheads and bullheads and a bunch of like old school steakhouse. And you see Poppy Steak today, it's a cutting edge steakhouse. It's completely different than that. So it's part of the process and that's the process I love more than anything.

I was trying to get close to you. I just, I just know how this works. I'm going to be like, make me close to the mic. Is it too far? No, you're better. You're at least a lot better than Mike Tyson. He was fucking recline back and back of his fucking house. He's talking to the bike.

Mike Tyson was probably smoking a lot of weed. Yeah. Yeah, we get pretty high for that. Yeah, pretty high, I'm sure. I know you don't want to talk about COVID. Obviously, you said that already, but I have to bring it up. When COVID happened back in the day, right? Your industry got rocked more than anything, right?

Our industry got rocked, but like anything else, you had to adapt. But there was no adapting, though, because it was just everything was shut down, right? It was for a few months, but we're in Florida. So we opened. You pretty much said not fuck it, but like you kept, you kind of like. Yeah, yeah. Listen, there's a lot of bobbing and weaving. But we, listen, we wanted everyone to be safe.

So a lot of our stuff would go on outdoors. And we, of course, followed all the guidelines-ish to do it. But, you know, we're in a state where our governor wants us to be open and wants us to thrive. Good or bad, you know. And then we pushed vaccinations like crazy. Very politically safe answer. Yeah, very safe. Very safe.

Dave knows what he's doing, man. Obviously, smart man. No, but guys, vaccinations for us was such a big initiative, right? We made our staff do it. We made our teams do it. We had vaccination trucks in front of lift. So if you got a vaccination, we gave you a drink ticket for later on or whatever it is. It's important for our industry for people to get vaccinated.

So you're pro-vax. I mean, am I, let me just say it again. Super pro-vax. Yeah. I think the whole world is now, right? I got it the other day. I had to finally get it. My mom gave me shit.

She said, wait, you haven't been vax? Did you get COVID? I recently, I mean, I had to have had COVID. I was pretty all over the place during it. So I had it once. and my mother finally made me get it so I had to get the vaccination. I didn't feel great about it though.

I felt like a little bit invaded. How many times do you guys get shut down about the cops? A few times. Not shut down. I like Swan and stuff, right? Say, hey, Swan, you know, there's a midnight curfew. It's now 1210, 1215.

Can we please shut it down? That's the only thing we, I guess, you know, just not look at the time, but yeah. Yeah, you just forgot to look at the time. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird and you don't look at the time. I'm still really curious about what got you wanted and what got you started in this?

Like, what was your childhood? Like, is there some reason why? Yeah, so let's talk about my childhood. Yeah, why you have the success. Okay, so. You never wore a backpack to school, obviously. Clearly, backpacks were, it was like I would tie a belt around my books and just carry it like little rascals.

Yeah. So I'm an only child from a divorced parents that was, I was six years old when my parents got divorced. I grew up with growing pains and Charles in charge and, you know, Silver Spoon. and good times. And I think the reason why I'm so successful, and I have so much drive is because I probably felt insignificant growing up. And a lot of therapy has got me that point.

So you came from money? No. I came from middle-class family. Okay. No one gave me money. I had to raise everything on my own. My family didn't say, here's a couple million dollars go open a nightclub. Okay.

I started off as a bartender. I was a server. I was a host. I was a buser. I was a barback. I was a bartender. So I learned all the positions myself, which actually gives me the ability.

so no one could say to me, well, I'm going to walk out and I have to bow down to them because here's the thing, I'll do the job myself and they all know that, and that's important. How did you make the first restaurant was Komoda, right? How did you get that like pop and get, where celebrities are just showing up right away? So here's the thing.

When I first opened, I thought, wow, here's the big owner of live. It's going to be fucking slammed, right? Packed. Man, 100 people would show up a night. And you've been a commoto. We do 1,400 people on a night. So we had a push super hard. No one saw that area as an area for people to go to.

You're talking about Brickle. Brickle. Because it's so popping now. Now it's popping, right? Right. But then it was not popping. We got some food here, guys. We just put it down.

What do you want to do? Yeah, that'd be awesome. Some finger food? Yeah. Moza sticks? Bring it in. Let's go. Let's go.

Is this the Winkers special here? Whoa, what is that? Motsterrella sticks. Damn. Y'all might throw that over here. there. I want that one. Here. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Dave. When you opened up the first spot, like, did you already have, like, all the celebrity connects or like... So I had a lot of celebrity connections and, and, of course, a lot of DJs and stuff like that. This is hospitality. Winkers, diner. Wow. Huh? This is a real shit right here, guys. We'll take turns.

So I forced everyone I know, not just celebrities, but great people in town to come to Komodo, come to Komoto. and it kind of changed the whole narrative, man. To be honest with you, I would make DJs eat there before they would play. I would do whatever it took. And then we opened the lounge

in the storage space upstairs, which is Komodo Lounge. And now I think it's one of the most successful restaurants in Miami. Is this 100%? Camato's my favorite spot. Primarily just in Miami, your bars, restaurants, and all that. So I'm opening up in Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Doha, and we look at deals nonstop.

Right. Is everything that you, is it, it's obviously not all you, like, there's other people helping you with like other aspects of the business like so i have an amazing team i have a great team it's all under you know crude hospitality but i'm lucky enough to have amazing people around me did you ever had like hard times finding that or like difficult it's always hard times because everyone's good until they're not yeah but and you always have to get people to buy into what you believe and listen man during covid a lot of these kind of people that you thought

were one way you know you saw people changed a little bit during covid it's a pandemic kind of scared some people. This is the hospitality business. Who knew if the hospitality business was going to come back? And also, it took people a great second to take a look at their lives and see, is this really what I should be doing with my life?

Now that I'm sitting home for weeks and months, sometimes by yourself. I want the fun stuff, though. What's the most anybody's ever spent on one tab at one of your restaurants? So we've had guys spend two to 500,000 before. We've had, we also

have seen everyone from We've seen everyone from Gaddafi's kids to arms dealers to the biggest... You've never had a seven-figure bottle service to have? A million dollar? No, never. No, never. What's the most? 500 or two them?

500. Joe Lowe and, you know... So half a million dollars, if you're spent a half million bucks, the girl, whoever's doing the bottle service or whatnot, they're getting what, tipped out what, on that? So we're a pulled house. The whole place is getting tipped out on it, but they do get to keep their overtips. But do they all share? They all share.

And that creates teamwork. Okay. Otherwise, when I first opened, Liv, it wasn't on the pool system. And my managers at the time were getting extra favors from people to get certain sections. So by doing a tip pool, it wiped all that away. What's your process in hiring bottle service girls and talent that work at your restaurant? Listen, you look for not just their knowledge, but their energy, too, right? Is this someone that's going to adapt?

Because you're in the trenches. Right. And live. You guys have all been there before. You know what it's like at those tables. These people are animals, man. You're animals. So you have to have a real patience and acceptance

and still strive to get these people what they need. How important is like looks. So it looks, you know, just like life. Can't have dust bottle girls. Yeah, no, I mean, that's like, I mean, we're not going to make whatever, but like, let's be honest. I just mean, if somebody, no, I'm just asking. Is it like a scale?

Do you have to be like a seven or above? I mean, your scale and my scale might. True, true. I'm going to say this like a. I know that's what I'm asking. I don't know. I mean, like, you know, I just didn't know what the process was. Like, somebody walks in and it's like, eh.

It's got to have something. I mean. Well, no shit. Yeah, definitely. I mean, what do you guys look for in a bottle? I obviously look for. You want to fall in love with your bottle girl a little bit, you know? Like, you want to believe, like, you know what?

There's a chance that I might be able to wheel. I think it's a lot to be a little shallow. But, like, in reality, you have no chance, right? Yeah, that's the right way to say? You think it's a shallow industry in the nightlife business? No, I feel that like... I feel like you're wrong, man. All right, I'm sorry, Mr. Brubman.

I'm sorry, I apologize. I mean, this is crazy. You're walking into winkers and disrespecting the godfather? I'm never good. I'm never disrespecting the godfather. I apologize, my bad. Let me tell you, yeah. We write poetry.

We sit around and we, we think about how we could change the world. None of this is shallow. And we're doing, and there's nothing shallow about it. We talk about our feelings, our emotions, our dreams. It all makes sense now. What is my blanket? I'm not trying to get to be in trouble over here. I love to.

You know? What is it? What is? What is like the, so that was like the crazy, like some crazy stuff? What's the worst thing that's ever happened? I mean, someone died at the table one time. Oh, fuck, that was the worst. Fuck.

The ice hits the table. The bottle's not even there yet, and he died. Like how? No, no, he wasn't because of anything we did, obviously. Is that a heart attack or something? He had a heart attack, exactly. Fuck. And so how did you get that call?

Was he whispering in your ear and say, hey, Dave, so he's dead at the table? So, yeah, they're like, the guy died. And I was like, okay. And then you have to do crisis PR, right? Because they like to say, you know, where George Clooney and this one and this one all party at person passed away. Oh, fuck. And, you know, it just happened to another friend of mine that owns a nightclub in New York last week. And we said that I go, listen, I've been there.

So I get your pain. How do you deal with all, like, the underground shit with like that goes on in Miami, like owning all these businesses? Is that like something, obviously you can't talk too much about it? But like the shootings and all that, like in a city like Miami. Is that tough running all these hot spots? I think Miami's one of the safer cities. Yeah. Thank God.

I mean, I think the world during the, you know, a year ago was a very unsafe place around the world. But Miami is, I mean, the mayors, we have the best mayors, obviously. France is, you know, the whole thing. That guy's a beauty, isn't he? Mayor of Miami. He's a stud, man. Right? He looks like the image.

But he's changed Miami too, right? He got all the tech people to move down here. He's brought every founder and VC person to come here and move away from California and New York and take up residence here. He's pushed the entrepreneur mentality big time. I think it's great what he's done for Miami. So what's like a typical Friday night? So, obviously, Friday, Saturday night to busiest night. What's your typical Friday?

Was you bouncing around to every venue and making sure shit's good? First thing I do is Shabbat. Shabbat for me is like a big thing. My daughters get into it. I get into it. What is Shabbat? Shabbat's a very Jewy thing. Every Friday night, it's kind of like our day of rest or whatever it is,

from sundown to sundown the next day. Of course, I'm in the fun business, so I can't really take it in. But we do do the family dinner and with my friend Poppy. And we take that moment to really reflect and spend that family time together. And then it's out and about. But you're going to, you're going to poppy. You're going to this.

And you have a driver that drives you there. And you're going monitoring the kitchen. You're monitoring the tables. Oh, there's this issue's going on over there. Let me go over there and see what's going on. Or so-and-so is eating dinner over there. Go say hi. Do you spend more time at one place than another?

So what I try to do is our newest place I try to spend the most time at in the beginning because that's someone that needs your help. And then, like anything else, they all need your attention. Do you think details are very important when it comes to having a successful business? It's the entire thing. I love it. And you've had dinner with me. It's not a fun experience having dinner with me because I'm looking at every table around me.

And I'm seeing that, oh, that plate's dirty, that drinks, that glass is empty. They're not getting the service. Or I can look at it, you know, I can walk into a restaurant. I'm sure you guys can. As soon as you walk into a restaurant, you kind of know right away with the energy if you're going to have a good experience or a bad experience. You could feel if the team is frazzled or if everything's like on fire. But it's difficult. And then to eat at someone else's restaurant is the worst, right?

Because I want to help. I want to fix. And I've also realized that every server that in Miami that waits on me is going to choke. They always choke with me. What? When the servers. They're nervous. Somebody choked.

They don't write. The worst is when they don't write it down. I hate when they don't write down the order. I'm like, please, can you write down the order? No, I'm the smartest guy. I know what everything is. What's like the biggest choke of server's ever done?

Have they ever like walked over and just spilled the drinks or some shit? Or the, you know, instead of pacing out the meal, they'll order fire the whole thing right away, right? So I'll have apps, main course, dessert all at once.

It's like, oh, come on, man. What's the number one thing you've learned being in the hospitality industry? Like the best advice you can give to someone who wanted to be in it? It's not nine to five. Forever. It's 24 hours a day.

There's no shut off. It's like social media. It's the same shit, man. There's no shut off, man. People are going to be calling you in the morning, late night, this and that. The worst is when people try to have a conversation with you just to get to the point to ask you for that reservation or that table or the people that come out of the woodworks during like Ultra, New Year's,

and Arpazzo, and they're like, oh, hey, just wanted to check in on you. Okay, cool, thank you. Oh, by the way, I'm going to be there. Oh, fuck. It's like, come on. People are the worst. Oh, those are the worst fucking people. Oh, you'd rather them just be straight up.

Just ask me for the reservation or can I be the guest list? Oh, my God. Can I, can you help? I don't need all the banter leading up to that part. What do you, on an average Friday night, what's the table minimum? If you go get a table, live, what's the minimum you have spent? I mean, listen, I think the smallest amount of money you're going to spend is about $2,500. But is there a table minimum on a random Friday night?

It's just like a real estate deal. I want you to kind of see it like that. Certain tables are water view. Certain tables are in the forest. And certain tables are next to the disposable, next to the recycle garbage units. It just depends And it's funny because certain nights It flip-flops

So most nights at live The tables right in front of the DJ Are the most expensive tables But I'll live on Sunday on the hip-hop night The stage tables The opposite side are the most expensive tables And they have a minimum So they say before you go in there

You book it, it's like $15,000, $20,000? It just depends What about Super Bowl weekend? Super Bowl weekend was a lot And F-1, it's coming to Miami May 8th That's going to be Oh shit Yeah, that's going to be

What's the biggest moneymaker in this industry. Hospitality as a whole. The biggest, I mean, listen, you have the biggest room to make money is in nightclub, obviously. But a great restaurant with Poppy State Komodo

in the last 20 years. Listen, nightclubs are tough because they're hot for a couple years and they're gone. Live is one of those special kind of places could spin around for 13 years, 14 years, it's still the hottest club in town.

Long Bendy Twizzlers Candy keeps the fun going. Keep the fun. I'm going. Twizzlers. Keep the fun going. And you just know you have so many celebrity connects. Like I was,

with Dave, we had a meeting at Dave's like condo or whatever and we're just having lunch and shit talking about some stuff. And then knock at the door, fucking David Beckham walks in. In Victoria. And his wife.

Yeah. So how do you start developing these relations? And we chilled with like Beckham and shit and shot the shit and met his kids and stuff. That's pretty crazy. They love your stuff, by the way, thank you. They're like obsessed. That's crazy.

They're like wearing happy dad and full send nonstop these kids. I'm assuming you don't just hit them up and be like, hey, come over like, you know? No, but listen, guys, it's not just about the celebrity, it's about everyone. If I went to a table and there was just, it was a celebrity, a bunch of people.

I just talked to the celebrity. I wouldn't be talking to you, right? You got to know everybody that's around. That's the one thing that people I see do. They, like, hyper-focused on a celebrity and they just talk to the celebrity and they don't care about anybody else. It comes across as the worst. Right, right? Didn't you get Beckham hooked on, was it Chick-fil-A?

Oh, Chick-fil-A and Oakberry. Oak-Berry and Ozzy. You both think, but David is obsessed with Chick-fil-A. He talked about it with us. He's obsessed with it. He'll queue in line, like this. Like, doesn't he just go there? He just goes there and no security and just waits in line and shit.

The greatest thing about David is he doesn't travel around with tons of security or anything. or drivers. He's just a... He's a chill-ass dude. I saw my comato one. He's the coolest, man. Those guys all get comp when they go to your clubs? They got to pay out of pocket.

Clubs, they don't really go to nightclubs. They go... And listen, that's a big thing. Do celebs get comp to you charge this one and not that one? What's the deal? Right. Certain people dying to pay, right?

Right. And the richest people in the world don't want to pay. I mean, what about my guy? I know that I know you're very close to my guy. Tom Brady. Tom Brady is my number one guy. He's not a nightclub guy, though. That's your guy?

That is my number one guy. I grew up, he's my fucking goal, okay. He's not, he hasn't, he has no money. How many unanswered DMs does Tom Brady happen? I had to unsend a bunch of them because it got to a point where I was like, man, he hasn't seen it. If he does see it, I've said 3,000 DMs. How many you think? Like, is it in the 4?

No, no, like, probably like, honestly, probably like 32. So last Sunday, last Sunday we go to the tunnel, right? And, you know, I'm sure you guys saw the scene where I played football with him and Dave in DB on the beach in the Bahamas. And it broke the internet. Oh, yeah, I saw that. And we were so obsessed with Tom on that trip. he left a day early, we smelled the pillow. It was unbelievable.

I was like, wow, I know what Tom smells like. And then when he gave me a hug right after the, off the field on last Sunday, Tom didn't smell the same. It was a little bit different smell to me. It was a little weird. But, I mean, he's a goat. I mean, he's the greatest guy ever. Is he a cheap?

Is he a good tipper? He's not a nightclub guy, so he's never been in my nightclub. Well, even dinner. Does he give a good tip? Yeah, all these guys, I mean, that's the one thing I look for more than anything is if they take care of the team or not. because that's a real good, you know, if you appreciate where you came from

and you make sure you take care of those people. Yeah, it's different if they appreciate you, obviously, versus everyone else. That's a big thing. Of course, they're going to appreciate me. But how do they treat the people around them is the main thing. Tom's interested in the Happy Dad shit too, right?

He won't stop hitting me up about it. He's obsessed with the Happy Dad. That'd be crazy. That'd be nuts. I don't think we need too many celebrity firepower besides, like, our group. But if there's one person we want to get involved, it's Tom Brady.

Tom is the greatest to ever do it by far. I think with this Happy Dad shit, we didn't really, we didn't chase after celebrities and shit. Everyone's like, let's get this person involved. And we're like, dude, we don't really need that. But that'd be one person. We have meetings, right? And we're like, hey, this person really wants allocation.

This person wants that. And then he's like, yeah, that's not going to happen, Dave. How did you guys all get involved with? How did you get involved with Happy Dad through? So I'm not, I mean, I'm just here to help and just launching and whatever. But during COVID, you know, these guys moved to Boko Retone out of all places. Yeah. No, we came for like a little trip.

Not a little trip. You were like Boca del Vista was you playing shuffleboard with the retirement people in Boca, telling people that you were living in Miami, but you were not living in Miami. We came here for two weeks. You were living in fucking Boca at a retirement community home.

We came here for two weeks. He was cabin. He was, fully scabbing. He was like, oh, I'm in Miami, killing it. No, you were not in fucking Miami, man. You were in Boca Raton. Well, we travel with like 25 people so we can't afford fucking hotels in Miami.

We had to get a fat Airbnb being Boka, 12 rooms, driving distance, 20 minutes, that's how we roll sometimes. It was a monitor facility in case any of you guys had heart attacks or couldn't walk. It was crazy what was going on there. I like Boca. Boca is smoking, they have some like hot chicks. Yeah, those 92-year-olds are sick.

The way there's the boobs, like slap, the whole thing. So you've like pretty much dominated Miami. Would you visit other, like do the same thing in other cities and what cities are you now? Yeah, listen, we're going to take the show on the road, that's for sure. So, uh, what's your eye right now? So listen, I think our brands are big enough to live outside of Miami. I, I, I, I never think I could, I could own a market like I own Miami in, in another market. This has taken 30 years to build, man.

People think it's like, oh, just, no, man, it's every day. It's a lot of like personal connections. Yeah, there's no way. I mean, listen, I try to entrench myself here to try to start that again somewhere else. I couldn't imagine. When are you going to stop? It's a great question. I think I would be so bored just sitting on my couch watching 90-day fiancé over and over again.

I love it on Sundays, but I don't know if I could do that. I think it gives me purpose. When are you going to stop? You're going to, what do you think? I don't know. I mean, I'm signing 20-year leases today. I love it. So if I'm signing 20-year leases today, that kind of tells you.

Did you make a lot of money in Ethereum? In Ethereum, Max? Yeah. Bob can pull questions. No, but let's talk. about that guys. I'm curious. No, I said. I think you made a fuck ton of money in Ethereum Max. No, zero. So just to be completely honest, you know, that we were doing a Floyd Mayweather event that night, right? They said, well, you take this coin as a coin for payment at Live

and they'll give you a great sponsorship to do it. And then we said, yeah, of course. It sounds great. Plus, we saw that another club in town was taking a coin as payment. And we didn't want to be one of those guys that wasn't forward thinking because of how big crypto is getting. found out through people that, you know, maybe it wasn't everything that we thought it was going to be. So very quickly, we put up a thing and we took a pause on it. Not that they're bad guys. I think they were just kind of figuring out the whole coin situation.

But for us, because we have such loyal fans and guests, we didn't want to take any kind of chances. So we put it out there right away. Hey, guys, until we know exactly how this payment structure is working, we can't do it. And, of course, we gave everything back. Do you have money in crypto? So I do.

You know, Jack Dorsey told me a great thing. The guy from Twitter and Square and said, listen, Bitcoin's going to be $100,000 by the end of the year. At that time, it was $38,000. It's like $70 right now or something. Yeah. But he thinks it's going to be a million. It's going to be a million dollars by $24. Wow.

So I say to him, I go, that shit. Oh, baby. I'm on it. I go, Jack, it's 38. Let me wait until it dips down to like 35 and I'll buy some. He's like, listen, man. Do you hear what I just fucking told you? Yeah.

Like, it's going to be 100. by the end of the year and a million by 24 times now so if i'm telling you that two or or a hundred dollars is is a rounding curve for you david so stop and buy it so there's yeah well do you have do you have investments like outside like just real estate investments that you don't so for me he's got fucking so many investments i know i'm so fucking curious when you go to his house he's got like fucking a chocolate bar a bag of chips a water he's like kyle do this app and shit so for me guys I meet with one or two founders a day because I love that inspiration.

I love that entrepreneurial inspiration. And these kids are like 24, 23, 26 years old out of Stanford and Yale and they're kind of like shaking when they meet with me. But these are the kids that are going to change the world, right? So I want to be a part of that process.

You know Miami needs they don't have is in an L burger. So did you just see the post today? No, I just looked at the question on the board, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah, that was my way of like transition. Yeah, pretty good.

By the way, you're going to use that Ethereum clip, I guarantee it on the... I don't even know there was a board here right now. Wow, there is a board. I mean, if I had to just read the question, I just heard David is going to be bringing in and out here. You do it in and out here? No, I wish, guys. They turned me down for a Chick-fil-A.

They turned me down for a Chick-fil-A franchise, so I can't even imagine it in and out. What do you mean they turn you down for a chick-old? So I did all the paperwork, guys. I was excited. I read the paper. There's no way to make money with a Chick-fil-A-Frain. They make all the money. It's crazy.

And if you do a great job, they'll let you maybe open a second one, but never more than two. And I think they were just like, sorry, man. I'm going to call up Dan right now. There's no way to change that. I have, I have Dan's number. Can you please because, listen, I don't even care about making the money. I just want to have Chick-fil-A accessible at all times. That's for me the crazy.

Why did they do that? I don't know. They didn't give me a reason. They just turned me down. Are you sticking strictly to the restaurant business? Are you going to be expanding? I mean, sports gambling casinos. So I opened my first hotel, as you know, and I'm going to open a resort in two years.

For me, I want to be that full ecosystem for people. I want to be your lifestyle. Are you ever going to get into casinos? So I haven't gotten to, of course, that's the end goal for any of us, right? Is a casino? Then you're like, that's a whole other level of a lot. That would be sick. Just like the Hard Rock.

Sam Kiki. I think it's a bigger brand than the Hard Rock full set. Yeah, I think so, too. I think so. I think for our generation. Crazy. I think you, Faye clan, I think you guys, Fais clan, a bunch of these new brands are going to become the Nike's of this next generation.

Yeah. You guys have a real chance for that. I think that's kind of cool. 100%. So you can't do it. I mean, not this guy with the bikini straps. I don't know.

Oh, come on. Maybe Brad's backpacks. That could work. Yeah, yeah. You can I sell backpacks? Yeah, backpacks? Dave's not investing in that one, eh? Fuck, man.

Yeah, I was going to talk to you after. I'm never going to invest in a backpack company. No. Just never going to work? No, man. What's up with not allowing sweatpants in a fucking... Yeah, that drives me nuts. I want to walk into a fucking.

place. Who says no sweatpants? I mean, and you're established anywhere in LA, for sure. We allow you to wear sweatpants. You gotta be somebody. Yeah. I mean, I can't walk in and wear sweatpants.

Well, they don't want the restaurant to look bummy into it, right? No, I know. Well, we have a no shorts rule. So we do sell live pants. That's another thing that drives me fucking nuts, though. It's like, it's Miami. Why the fuck can't we wear shorts?

What about slides with socks? That's funny you say that. So I have flat feet so I can never wear a slide or a flip flop or any of that. So I'm kind of anti-slides. And I have an inching a carpet. It looks like I'm itching the carpet all the time, but I'm not. It's just the way my toe is.

I got flat feet, too. I relate to that. You understand. How do you wear slides and stuff? I just do it. Or do you wear, like, the old bass outlet ones that strap up or the Tivas that's strapped behind your ankle? No, I just wear the ones I slide, and I just, I know.

My feet always have to go like that to hold on, but I don't even care. I just wear it. Yeah, it's not for me. What do you got to be, though, to let it do on sweatpants. I've got, I hate it. It's all I wear, and then I go. So sweatpants are good, shorts are bad. Shorts are bad.

but you can wear your sweats. Right. So if you walk in, you see someone. As long as you wear it cool, right? Yeah. Another person I see you're cool with is Kim Kardashian. She's the best.

How did you like meet her? So I met her back in the day she was Paris as hot friend. Paris Hilton. Whoa. What year was that? I mean, it has to be 17 years ago. So she was kind of like a nobody at the time? It was that she was a nobody.

That was still the very cool crew. The fact that she was part of that crew was a big thing. And Kim is just, you know, listen, you see people come and go. Kim's going to last forever, right? She's the first one to do glam. She's the hardest working person I know. She doesn't stop. She gets it.

Kim's bad as shit. She's got to be calmed everybody. She walks in, you got to just give everything she wants, right? It's Kim, dude. Oh, here's a great story. So Kim comes to my- Here's the best thing. Wait, wait, wait, wait, right.

Here's the best thing. So for my hotel opening, Kim comes and does a whole thing for me for the opening of the Good Time Hotel. The next day she eats at Swan. And my friend that was with her calls me and says, Do you know your manager just gave her a check for the full amount? For brunch, for just a couple of eggs or whatever.

Of course, the manager got an earful, but I just couldn't believe it. But here's how cool Kim is. Kim is like, Dave, I'd love to support your restaurants. I never want you to come. What do you mean? So she got a bill for the action? First, she came for brunch the next day. And of course, if Kim came to my opening for the hotel,

I would buy you brunch the next day at one of my restaurants. That goes without, she's leaving to go back to L.A. Come and have brunch at my restaurant. She could afford a $120 fucking brunch. Right. By the way, she's happy to pay. Right. She's one of those that wants to support you.

I think it's all more insulting sometimes. It's probably being Kim Kardashian sometimes if you're like, you know. But the manager didn't even like send a dessert. I was like, you don't even send a dessert, man? That's a little weird. That's fucked up. It's crazy. That's the worst bar.

Luke at Swan. It was Luke at Swan. Okay. Does he still work there? Of course he still works here. He does. He does. He's amazing.

Luke, man. He's a great, great manager. That was just one of those situations. How often you got to fire people? Oh. So, listen, it happens. Sometimes you have to part ways with people. What's a big boo-boo that you just can't come back from

no matter how good of a person is or how good of a working is? Was a big boo-boo? Stealing. Oh, the worst. Stealing? What's the most of someone stolen from you? I would never steal from Dave, bro. That's what I think, right?

I would think, listen, you're really crazy, right? So we've had a chef at Komodo one time bringing his own fish in to try to scam. What the fuck? The things you think the nightclub business is crazy? Wait, explain what do you, what is the point? What is it being fishing for? One time we had a chef at Komodo bring his own fish in

so he could send his friends and family sushi for free. Wow. What the fuck? People come up with crazy things. So you found that guy that was giving the sushi for free. We're like, what, because we didn't see it right, you know, you track everything. And we found out that he had brought his own fishing. Well, what was that conversation like?

It wasn't a pretty conversation. Did you just like see it on the cameras and shit? and then you're watching it and you're like, is that a fish? Yeah. The guy brought his own fishing, man. But listen, we've seen everything you could ever imagine under the sun.

How much has any tried to steal money from you before? Yeah, you know, listen. It's not a very big cash business as much. Oh, no, no. I find their kids. Can't let that shit happen. Yeah, listen. There's nothing that feels worse

than someone's stealing from you. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's the worst thing ever, man. I'm still in the firing thing, though. So firing is, I've learned over the years that you kind of just be specific with people on what they did wrong and how it affected you. And once you lay it out like that, they usually apologize and say, I'm so sorry, and I understand.

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We'll come back to it. I've given second chances a lot. Yeah. Because I think people, you know, listen, people have made mistakes. The worst is when you give them a second chance and they still don't learn. But, oh, no, those are the, there's people that have character flaws and they just can't get, they just can't help themselves to, to hurt themselves. Some people just don't learn.

It's crazy. Like you tell them, it's like, you tell them shit and they just don't fucking learn, you know. It's got to be tough, too, with like bottle service girls and whatnot and all guys, like, you know, at the club and whatnot, just like getting a little bit sometimes a little edgy with the bottle service girls. So how many times you got a bottle service girl in the back fucking crying her eyes out saying this guy just did something to me and how do you handle it? that it's definitely a part of the business and you have to show them that you care more about them than the customer than the guest right so you have to there's there's no tolerance for that in our places we remove them no matter how much they're spending it's bye-bye and i've you know i love when an entitled kid some rich kid or somewhere like that treats my staff shitty the worst then i go crazy that's it like that's my wheelhouse you know who my dad is i love an entitled kid and that's a one-on-one where you go up to the table wow or they treat one of my team members like shit i i i i I thrive on that. That's my, because listen,

I'm an animal, right? But no one else is going to be an animal, that's for sure. And no one's going to be entitled to my place and treat my team like shit. That's for sure.

I love it. I fuck people up over that. But I enjoy it. Like I live for something like that. You got any big names 86 from any of your clubs? Yeah, we've had a lot of big names 86. But like permanently.

Have what? Like big names? Like 86. Like they can't come back. Your friend Steve's friend is definitely. I knew where this is going. Your friend's friend is definitely 86. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. How is it? He waited for Meek Mill in my parking lot at Komoto. Like, what are you doing, man? To cause havoc? No way. And he still ties to hit. Is Steve still hanging with him?

Yeah. That's not good. You have life and she? Wow. He looked at me crazy. I just wanted to sneak him in in his backpack. No, this is cab. He's capped.

I mean, he could fit in your backpack. Did you see the incident on camera? What do you mean? It was the craziest thing ever. Were you there in person? No. No. He was sitting there waiting.

He was sitting in the car. He had a lookout inside the lobby. We all know who that was. Murder Murf. Okay. Hello, he knows. Of course. We know everything.

And it was, you know, listen, I don't know if it was for a hype or whatever, but those kind of situations could lead into something bigger that no one wants to deal with. Yeah. And we can't have that. People want to feel safe in our places. What would 6-9 have to do to get a table at live? Is there any possibility?

There's not even a time machine. I have a million dollars where you let me do it. We'll empty the club and have him by him. himself before fuck yeah it's deep it's just it was tough for him is there's just not a lot of coming back from that you know how do you come back you can't really you know so it is what it is touchy subject with this group here sorry no sorry i don't you know listen i mean i you're hanging out with him a lot huh i haven't been in miami for a little bit but when i'm around i see him okay that's nice okay sure he's a nice guy yeah yeah sure's a nice guy yeah but i get it's more

just business is business right i understand i understand that perspective and i understand He's his business, too. His business is to create hype and buzz and create controversy to try to sell records and songs and everything, but I just can't be a part of that. You're a tennis player, by the way? I don't mean, whatever. Yeah, I saw a video. I love the shirt. So I'm the creative director and partner in Prince, but besides that, I picked up tennis.

They're kind of dead, though, right? Yeah, so I picked it up a year, a little bit over a year ago, and I've become obsessed. And now Prince is doing Warren Lotus. We're doing a Happy Dad collab. We're doing tons of great things. Happy Dad Prince? Oh, yeah. That's happening.

So you're saying your, you're. bringing back prints. I'm happy to bring back. And I'm bringing back tennis. Well, I call it Fennis, because I don't do overhead serving. I noticed you said that earlier. Yeah, it's one, it's one fed ball, one rally ball over, then we're live. It's way more dynamic than regular tennis. Well, you don't want to sit there and wait for the overhead serve.

You just suck at returning serves? No, just first of all, I just get a-hast to lose weight. I just don't know how to do the overhead service. Yeah, I was like, I've never heard of Fennis. Did you make that up? You're like, you make that up? You're like, it's, it's, it's, there's a lot chatter about it becoming an Olympic sport in 24. Oh, shit.

And everybody wants to, nobody wants to sit there and wait for the overhand serve. They want to play Fennis. What the fuck is Fennis? Yeah, exactly. Can you describe it a little more? Yes. Tennis with no serving. It's a fed ball, one rally ball over, and then you're live.

It's more dynamic. It's very dynamic. It seems like kind of an amateur sport, though. You know, the good guys probably do the fucking serve everything. Is that a challenge? Are you a challenging name? I'm not challenged. I don't know what I'm saying is.

What I'm saying is it just seems like a less athletic thing than actual tennis. No, no, it's way more athletic because you're running around 10 times more. All right. Because remember, if you're overhand serve, you're stopping, you're overhand serving, you're stopping,

you're walking the other side, overhand, this is like, boom, boom, boom, let's go. Cutting out the real athletic ability, though. I don't know if that's true.

Are you saying because people spend a lot of time trying to kill their serves? Yeah, they sit there and like... It's like fault one. It's like you get it. And when you throw a fucking

101 mile power bangers. We just want to hit, man. I just want to hit. It's the Terodome. I play in a place called the Terodome. That's what I call my court. You have your own court.

Who do you play tennis with? I mean, you know, I play with the top 10, I mean, they're the top 10 players in the world. The guy, Danil just wins the U.S. Open. On Sunday, Tuesday, he's sitting in, I'm in Miami, can we play? You play with him? Yeah, of course. He plays.

He plays. I don't know if that's true. He tries. Are you good at tennis? I mean, you could not score a point against the fucking best guy in the world one day. Really? Yeah.

You have that kind of game. So every dog gets lucky, right? Could you take a hole off of PGA there? I mean, dude, time on. You play fucking Serena Williams in a fucking game until you're not getting one fucking point. There's no fucking chance. Well, you think you could take one off to shambo or some shit? You don't think you can drop shots arena one time and get a point

or something? Well, I'm just not a good tennis player, so I'll let you go on. What sport do you play? I can play golf really well. I'm a very good basketball, but I was always very small, so I really couldn't really good basketball? Would you play tetherball or four square? You keep naming these fucking things I've never fucking heard of. I don't know what kind of weird. Or hacky sack? I feel like you're a big hacky sack guy. I never done a hockey sack guy for sure. I didn't fit in. A little yo-yo

action? I didn't fit in. Did you do the yo-yo? No, I couldn't do that either. I was basketball, golf, I'm very good at golf. Kickball? How about kickball? Kickball, it was good. Bob's a good golfer. I'm a very good golfer. Okay. How'd you get into tennis? So during COVID, I was stuck in Turks and Kickos, I'm in your, and I started

playing tennis. Stuck there? Yeah, stuck there. Got trapped? Yeah, got trapped in turts. And I started playing tennis, and once you do that topspin one time, it's completely addictive. Has it, like, helped you at all? Like, in life, like? Yeah, took off some weight, which was great. I've done great deals.

35 pounds I think oh how long you're in two months damn that's amazing but I think it's important golf just like golf you could do great business deals on the court that's what it is the problem is you don't want to play with anybody else though unless there's business going on because it's four hours of time though that's the other brother golf you play golf should be like they said

12 holes that's it 12 months 18 is a long time you're playing with three people I mean dude it's four and a half hours of fucking the amount of times I play golf with this guy and he just leaves the course like he just walk off I have never left once that's fucking bullshit You've left multiple times. I've taken a couple holes off because I actually am trying to create different things. You leave.

Like bringing the Nulk Boys with the UFC, you know what I mean? Okay, Bob. Motherfucker. Did he just name drop the UFC on us? He did. I love that. Well, he holds that over a lot of people. He holds out over a lot of people, you know?

I don't want to call a merger, but. Didn't you get some money for that? Jesus. For the UFC thing? Let's just say. Not enough, Dana. You got some great merch. You got some great merch.

Not enough, Dana. So losing the weight, has it helped you in other aspects of your life? Yeah. You know, I never thought I'd be a Calvin Klein model. I got to do a Calvin Klein ad and the cover of British GQ. I didn't think that would have ever happened. Wait, you used to be, you should be flat. Yeah, where is this? Someone pulled this up.

Pop it up. Please, someone pop this up, please. Let's pop it up. Our team is not capable of doing that that fast. Okay, that's okay. You got it on a camera. We'll get it up. But guys, I'll give it to you guys. It's all on the Instagram at Dave Grubman. Exactly. Gabe's like, do you use social really actively? Yeah, I do. I think

it's a great way to tell my stories and to show people what's going on in my places. do you get hate do people come and say like you don't let me in a fucking club oh look at that look at that's that's kind of good right wow oh that's sick wow whoa king in miami man dave looking good am married are you are you married real quick i am married i have two daughters do you have the we just had nine questions going on once but you're married two daughters married two daughters the most amazing wife ever and she's actually uh probably half the reason for my see probably more of the reason why how long have you been married for uh five years five years prior that one one wife

No, there was one before. Okay, cool. We don't talk about that, though. That's fine. I'm not bringing it out of this in. Great person, great person. I'm saying when you were living the single life, though, and you were fucking... It was very dark.

It was very dark. Yeah, we got to get into that, but yes. How do you mean? I want to get into this. Being single in Miami with weapons of mass destruction. Yeah. I mean, like, weapons, right? Can you give us the other...

But guys at the end of the day, it's all... Listen, it's... You want to know. Yeah. We want to hear about this. We don't need to revisit those days, but... We have an editing team. No, but I think it's cool.

Something I wonder, too, is, like, how big has it been, yeah, when you get married? Like, is it just change shit? Like... Yeah, it changes a lot. Changes a lot. But, listen, your perspective changes to you when you had two daughters. Yeah. But...

That's interesting. I want to hear the war stories, man. I want to hear the war stories. Fuck. No, I was just saying, like, here's a deal. Like, being a fucking hot shot, the king of fucking Miami on the come up, you had to get some pussy when you were single. That's why I was asking, Dave. You said he's got two daughters.

No, I know. Tell me out, come out, come out. No disrespect. I'm talking in the past. He's got a wife. In the past, I might have dabbled. I know, but who did you dabble with? Anybody good?

I mean, wow, now we're name and name? This is what, this is the full set podcast. Do you think his wife wants to hear this? Is this Howard Stern? I'm gone. This is why Bob can't keep a girl for more than two weeks, man. All right, I'm sorry. Do you kiss and tell every time?

Because I still want to kiss and tell, right? I'll, like, make love to my wife, and I can't wait to tell my assistant. I killed it. No, I know. I don't mean to push you on the spot. I was just hoping that you could maimdrop maybe somebody like crazy back in the day that you got on your list that's it

doesn't seem like it's happening Yeah let's keep it going Let's move on Who else who else are you like cool with like who's like one rapper You're like cool with like really close with Like are you cool with like Lowell Wayne? He lives here like he does live here but I'm more cool with his manager MacMain

And Wayne's been listen Wayne changed my whole business So when we started the Sunday party It was doing okay And then Wayne started coming and performing every Sunday for free. We come and just perform every Sunday. How did that happen? How did that happen? It happened like two years after we opened live when we started this Sunday party.

He just started coming every Sunday and started performing, I think mostly because of his relationship. What time? Yeah, what year? Wow. It's so, like Little Wayne's like, yeah, because like, we didn't know what time, Lou Wayne. It has to be like 2010, 2011.

Like lollipop? So, so he then puts in a song, live on Sunday, diamonds on Monday. And that changed the whole makeup of Live on Sunday, guys. Really? Yeah, because it was called Imagine Sundays. Right away, we changed it. Of course. Right away, we changed it to Live on Sunday the name of the party.

He goes to jail for a year or two or whatever it is. Comes out and starts performing again like crazy. And at this point, every rapper uses Live on Sunday as that platform to drop their new single, their new album, their new everything. And it's been this, even when we do pop-ups outside of Miami, we do it as a Live on Sunday pop up. It changed everything for us. Are there any other big moments like that in your career that were like... Yeah, I mean, all the championship parties,

obviously. The Dallas Mavericks brought the trophy to live when they won, which in any other town would be a bad thing, but Miami were not the biggest sports town in the world, so it was okay. But then the next year the heat won, they brought the trophy, the next two years to heat win, and they bring the trophy to live and story.

And it was amazing. Are you involved in any sports teams? No, I would love to be involved. Well, there's a pickleball team I'd love to get involved with but no no is my Miami right now is popping right everybody came here everybody left L.A everybody's in my you know Miami for a few years has been an amazing last L.A by the way fucking sucks L.A's just L.A. is falling completely apart kind of like when he lives in Boka he lives in Orange County so it's not like you could tell me if L.A. is really I live in L.A. I live in L.A. Baca and tell me Miami's great. L.A.

fucking sucks. Boca. I like Boka. Yeah, L.A. Dada. I live in L. L.A. is just. And I don't think they're coming back. I really don't think they're coming back. I think it's dead. I think so many people left. I think it's just fucking... So people said that about New York, and then new people came to New York and New York's back is on fire again? I mean, are people putting bombs in their sneakers still? Is that still happening? No, that what he's saying?

That was Richard Rood. Who was that? Who was that? It was Richard Reed or something, that guy? Like, we never did that, and then we never stopped doing it. And we never stopped doing it. Because people will put bombs in their sneakers now. I mean, to me, it's crazy. That was the guy that was Reed or whatever. Richard Reeder was of his name. I don't know who the fuck. The fact that you know his name. You're like a Cliff Claven fun fact guy.

I'm weird with, like, I get lost in these YouTube rabbit hole. I watch weird ass shit for like hours and hours. Like alligators eating things for like five hours straight. Oh, like where they sneak in the water and the zebra comes by and they jump. I love those videos. Nothing better to sit there and watch that. Like alligator versus leopard and shit? Oh.

But that's why they take the shoes up now. The guy tried to detonate the bomb and never was successful. But it was like all smoke. So that one guy caused us, all the hassle. He actually, yeah. He tried and then they were like, oh. So what's the next thing? I wonder is the question.

This is why the guy wears slides all the time because you're not putting a I'm going to slide. Solid. I always had a backpack. There was a lot of backpack bombers. Backpacks are. You know what the worst thing is when you go into that machine, you go through TSA and you put your hands up like this?

And then all of a sudden, boom, there's a red thing on your dick. Every single time I go through the TSA. They have to turn their hand backwards. They go, oh, I'm just going to turn my hand backwards. I'm like, if you're going to touch it, why can't you just go full hand? Why do you have to go back hand? The back hand's more sensitive to me. Yeah.

I just had a big red fucking square on my dick. And I go, can I go back in this fucking thing? And he's like, nope. I mean this. Why not? Why can I just step back in the fucking machine? And what's the tissue?

What's the swab they put on you and then they put the machine? What goes on in that machine? It's like if it's a bomb or not. They're checking if you have like bone dust. Dunpowder material. Gotcha. Every single time I go to TSA, I have the thing

and they have to pat me down. Not one time. But it's always on my dick. But it's always the back of the hand. You want to see that? Gabe. It's kind of like getting a handy chicken style no eye contact.

You've never hit on Bob before. Gabe stuffs things on there on purpose. No, I think he was talking about me. Well, what happened with you? No, he was just talking about wanting to be there When the TSA guy pats down Sometimes you get worried though When they're just like panicking TSA

And they're just like, fuck it, go, go And you have to just walk to the metal detector No, that's never happened to me It's always sometimes it happens But they just like feed you through That's a crazy story They just like go through They're a little like on edge

Can you just hurry out? Yeah, probably But with your new UFC deal You're only flying private anyway There's no fucking UFC deal David And it's crazy There's no fucking UFC deal You got the UFC jet

If you're been to a fight I've never been to a UFC fight I've got to come Dave I'd say UFC fight is probably the best sporting experience that I've ever had in my life It's crazy how you're paid to say that

If you're allowed to stay You don't get kicked out Trust me I don't want to say it No but it's the best experience ever Bob gets kicked out of a lot of UFC fights Yeah I never got kicked out of a fucking UFC fight Kyle I had one time where I brought a guest

Who was loud and obnoxious You're the reason I didn't get into UFC fight No that was Aaron That was you Not me at all I'm not getting this on Dave. His assistant got me in. Anyways, would you ever open business

do business like this you're doing out here in L.A.? Even in a small way? So from what I've heard from my friends, L.A. is very challenging to make money and you get held up by your team and the middle of the night they'll be like,

if you don't pay us two more dollars an hour, we're walking out. You guys have really strict firing laws out there. You can't just fire people. Fucking right. In L.A. in California. L.A. fucking sucks. I'm sorry.

Fuck, man. I need to move my gym. California is just good for the weather. That's about it. No, it's not, though. It's the other thing, too. I like four seasons. You do like four seasons.

So Miami's not for you because we're one season. Yeah, no, Miami's not for me either. Miami's too fast and flashy, you know. Yeah, flashy. But, you know, it's crazy when it hits 70 degrees during winter, the girls put the boots on all the way up to the top, it's like a whole thing. People wear winter jacks.

It's crazy. They go nuts. Like, they think they're in Aspen. There's nothing better than waiting for that, like, Norie. It's 74 degrees. That's it. Strap up. How is Happy Debbie been doing in the spots?

So, guys, you know, When we did have, we launched Happy Dad in our places. We put it at even Poppy Steak. And Poppy calls me, goes, you know what's so crazy, David? We have people coming to Poppy Steak just to get to Happy Dad. And I think this is when it first came out, too, they were selling on the second tier market. Like, Happy Dad was like had its own like, like, like, app just people like trying to resell it. It was like on Stock X.

That's kind of crazy for a Seltzer, no? That's pretty good. It's pretty good. That's fucking amazing. That's impressive as fuck. dude. Bob, that's amazing. Are you a teacher, by the way?

I am. Are you trying to end the Happy Dad shit real quick? Real quick. Anyways, Happy Dad is actually one of my favorite. Happy Dad is one of my favorite drinks ever, and I can't lie. I can't lie. I really can't. It is one of my favorite drinks.

I actually, like, low-key, like, really fucking love this shit. I just like to talk shit to you. So this guy during the Happy Dad stages would bring us samples of different taste for us a taste. There was the pineapple, there was, like, a smoked salmon. There was weird flavors, too, you were trying. And then we were just like, this is going to be a... What was the weirdest?

What was the weirdest flavor? What was the weirdest flavor? I don't remember. When was that? When you were first, like, starting to go to Milwaukee and you were coming back with different flavor samples to talk about? I mean, I think the flavor profile is great. I think we do need to add a couple. We got some new flavors coming.

What are some of the new flavors? We got... Hearing it first. We got, like, a peach tea that we tried, which is fire. Do you have a grape or a... Tangerine? We tried, like, ten different flavors. Like, we have so many, but we're just trying to choose which ones we want to use next.

Lemonade. Dave, I'm so sorry that we rudely interrupted your teaching sessions with Happy Dad promos. That's okay. If you want to transition back to- I'm sure you guys will come and teach a class with me. Speaking to which, this Tuesday, this Tuesday, I go to Cornell, Tuesday and Wednesday, I'm speaking at Ivy League School. They're having somebody like me come and speak at an Ivy League school. Really?

Yeah. It's kind of crazy. Did you get nervous? Nervous. I don't know. Once in a while you get a little. What's the topic? Just like overall business? Yeah, entrepreneurship. How do you do it?

Do you rehearse in the mirror? I don't rehearse. No, you just walk in? I've done it so many times now, man. I teach a class called the David Gretman experience at FIU Hospitality, and it's probably the hardest thing I've ever done. It's one thing when you go and speak for an hour or whatever, but when you teach a class on what's so easy for you to do every day, it kind of changes you. Like to break it down. It's tough. Go ahead, sorry.

You teach like full time at a college right now? So I do like, I do seven classes, three hours of class. It's a three-credit course. Wow, that's cool. And I surprise them every week with somebody crazy. Remember we got thrown out of the Four Seasons? Yeah. Me and Kyle had, yeah, we all went to the Four Seasons

and all these fucking fans came in and like went crazy for them. And they were supposed to have our rooms ready and they weren't ready. And these kids were like jumping through the windows to get to these guys. They wouldn't put these guys in the fucking room. Ended up, long story short, they kicked us out. We couldn't stay there anymore. And actually, you know what? Are you banned from the Four Seasons?

I'm banned from the Four Seasons. A Canadian hotel company? No. I am. It's Canadian? Of course. Yeah. No, I'm not banned.

I'm on the list. I tried to go to the fucking Four Seasons in Boston. I was on like the fucking hit list. Because you gave them an earful. Of course, I got my boys back. Fuck that. Wait, you're actually banned from the Four Seasons? They didn't run like Grutman Enterprise.

That's what it was. Bob trashed him on social media and he's like, everyone go leave a bad review. And then 10 minutes later, he's talking to his lawyer. He's like, yo, did I fuck up? I like, did they sue me and shit? How did you do that? Because fuck the Four Seasons, Brad.

Oh, man. Wow. Only the good time. You always see at the good time hotel. Only five to four seasons in Boston that night, one night. They were off their game. So the good time, too, that's with Farrell, right? How does like that, like a partnership like that work?

So I was in California and they said, Farrell, you know, he used to live in Miami. He's moving back to Miami. He wants to get into hospitality. I said, let's do this restaurant swan together first, but I have a hotel that I'm working on. I think it would be great to have you part of it. And he's an amazing partner. It's fucking Farrell Williams. I mean, come on.

But is everything, music, fashion, creative. Is it like, what sort of deals do you make? Is it like, is he a majority? Is he like, how does that work? We're investing. We're both. We're partners. Okay.

That's dope. Can we talk about the Live Nation shit or not? Sure, of course. I sold 51% of my company of Live Nation, the best partners ever. You know, a lot of people sell a piece of their company. Like, I fucking hate my partners. Wait. So, Dave, so, yeah.

You sold 51% of the whole group? The whole group. And is it because it's such a good strategic partner mainly? That, I don't know if you guys have met Michael Rapino, the CEO. of Live Nation, he's probably one of the best guys, CEOs I've ever met before my life. And Live Nation is the number one entertainment business, yeah.

Drake dropped in the song, right? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen, he, him and, you know. That's how we know him, Drake dropped him. Yeah, that's how we know. That's how we know. Straight up, I mean, I'm honest. So, listen, you know, again,

so many people sell up and they hate their partners. I have the greatest partners in the world. So how does that work when they come in? Like, are they just buying it for, like, profit? Are they, like, actively helping you run the business? Like, how much control do they? They kind of push you to be the entrepreneur that you want to be.

They're like, listen, anything you want to do, let's do. I'm assuming they have connections with all the artists that maybe if you don't know, they can probably get them, right? They do, but we really haven't kind of used that card so much. I think it's more of, like, now they have a place for hospitality for their people as well. And we're pretty entrenched in the Miami market. It's great to have a live nation flag. Like for their company people or for just people that are involved with their business?

I think all the way around. I think it's the number one entertainment company in the world. Oh, shit. I didn't know that. Is you sold 51%? Is the amount like public or not? What does that mean? How much money is that?

It was a little bit of money. What? How much? Damn, can you tell us? I'm hoping. What the fuck? I'm hoping. Can you tell us off camera?

I think it was like 55. It was something like, it was something big. Whatever. $55,000? Yeah, $55,000. Nice, $55,500? Anyway, guys, I'm hoping that later on that the other portion will be worth 10 times more than the first part, right? And they'll help me get there.

Well, we'll make L.A. hot again. Listen, L. L.A's L. It's going to come back. see i don't i don't see it i think this is i i'm sorry i fucking i don't see it what you think is hot what somebody else the next generation might think is hot or two different things too right yeah what are you looking for in l.a it's because you're not pulling when you go there like a different summer or something you post dms you're like i'm in l.a and you're looking to the dms you're like uh 99% dude you put out the bat

signal and no more response no my shit is crazy brother i tell you i go so hard to try and that bad signal. I have a very good trick. Did I already explain it on here? Yeah, tell us the trick. No, tell him the trick, yeah. The trick is this, David. You should try this out at like Komoto or some shit. It's not going to work. Well, it's such a big restaurant. Dave, so basically here's a deal. I take out my phone, okay? And say I'm sitting there. There's two beautiful

girls sitting right there. I'll be like I'm at fucking Komoto, right? And I'll pan my phone around like this, and I'll catch them on the camera. I'll just catch their faces and I'll put the story out. I'm like, here I am at Komoto, like whatever, blah, blah. And I'll wait and I'll put up the world. Five minutes goes by, their phones are going fucking off the hook, saying you're

sitting next to fucking Zippy Magoo Wow. So he doesn't tag them. So I don't have to approach them. I don't meet them. I don't tag them, but their faces get caught and then all these fucking weird dudes are just banging around and just being like you're sitting next to Bob. See, I have guys that work with me and they'll take a picture with the girl. You know

this trick, right? They take a picture with the girl. Let me put you on my IG story, so they have their Instagram and then they start with the DMs right away with them. Oh, that's a class. See, that's simple. Yeah, that's classic. This guy took it to a new Well, I had to. There was nobody coming. There was nobody coming at me.

I mean, like, honestly, I've literally put out the most obvious badseals. It is actually impressive. Brad's about that out of the guys. You'll focus in on them and put that on the story. I mean, it is literally just all fucking dudes. I love that. It's what it is. It's kind of clever, actually.

It's genius. I'm going to try that. It is genius. Genius, brother. I haven't tried it yet, but maybe tonight. That's why you'll just see me at a restaurant all the time just fucking panning around, just trying to catch people's fucking faces. Sounds like a zapped idea.

What's the hottest restaurant you think right now? I know you say Komoto's always. is your favorite. Poppy steak is, it's so on fire, poppy steak. Really? I mean, he's on fire. He's doing a beefcase where we bring this beef case out, this briefcase holding a steak, and we branded the table. It's $1,000 a stake, and we're selling 20, 30 of those a night. So you have the best chef in the world, right? I don't, I think we have great chefs. Do we have famous celebrity chefs? It's a little slap in the face of the chefs right there, but you have the top chefs out there.

In the world, we have some of the best chefs, I think, yeah. What are, like, the big chefs making at your restaurant? You want to go over payroll, pay rate? Yeah, I mean, come on. I just want it on. I don't have asked curious questions. Yeah. How do you hire a chef?

A great chef could make anywhere from $90,000 to $200,000 a year, man. Nice. Yeah. How do you, like, go about hiring a chef? So we do tastings. And I've also learned this, that I don't need to, I don't want to do food tastings anymore. To get, like, a dish on the menu, we have to go through a thousand shitty dishes to taste before we pick out that one dish. It's a lot, man.

What's like a chef's responsibility? Like, do they design the whole? menu. So yeah, they come up with the menu. You've seen Ratatoui? Pixar movie, sorry, go ahead. Nah, I actually have. But you also have to, you have to inspire your team too, right? Because these guys are on the line behind a fucking hot grill.

You're fucking Zapatooie. Sorry, David. No, it's okay. Zapatui's great. Continue on. Continue on. All right, what's the next question? Well, I want to read one? Yeah, sure. David, the cannabis business in Florida.

Right. Or you get into it when it's legal? So I get a lot of costs for the cannabis business. The problem is I don't really smoke pot. That's not kind of my thing, right? I don't like that feeling. I do love CBD. I do love all that stuff.

I think Miami is going to be, listen, it's acceptable everywhere else in the world. We're legal here, but they haven't really activated it for some reason. Are you going to light up a joy here? No, I didn't want to do that. I didn't know, like normally it's never light up a joy in your restaurant, David. I'm just saying I had a joy. I mean, if you have a pen, I think a pen's okay. No, no, no, no.

I would never disrespect you like that, ever. Matter of fact, John's shaking his head of me right now. Oh, look who it is. Oh, salami. Salami. Salim. What's up, man? Salim didn't want to be on the podcast, but he said.

I don't know. Is he nervous around me? I think so. He might be. Good. You know how many dinners that have had with this guy hasn't said two words the whole time? Salim? Yeah.

Not one word. Oh, God. Are you a gambler at all? No. I'm not I would hate to lose money and feel like I work so hard for that money So you have like you said like 29 new things over?

28 openings in the next two years What are like they are like hotels, restaurants Just everything like no big nightclubs though On that list Still all in this area? Anything in Vegas? Oh yeah there is a big night club Oh yeah Liv's gonna be opening in at the Fountain Blue

in Las Vegas Wow once I go down Two years Oh shit That's gonna be huge It's gonna be big Is it the money that drives you? No no I don't even care about the money

I just love blowing people the fuck away. I love when people walk in my place and they go, this is like the Catalina wine mixer. So it's the game. It's the game. Money is always a derivative of doing what you love, right? I never go into something, oh, I'm going to make this much money, da-da-da.

I always think of what's the best way. And I don't push one place over the other place because I make more money in one restaurant than the other restaurant or nightclub. I have a question. When you needed money, though, was it somewhat part of the thing? So how did you?

Needing money is part of it, but I don't do things. for the money. I do things for the passion and trying to blow people away. You know, once it's kind of like ADD. Once you've done it, you want to top it right away. And how do you top it, top it, top it? There's a lot of people that'll do it and just, that's enough for them.

It's not enough for me. I want to go higher and higher and higher. Yeah. So if we go to your club tonight, shorts is not an option. Shorts are not an option. You can't wear sweats. Can't wear a shirt? No backpack, as we know.

All right. No backpack. No backpack. No packback and no string bikini tank time. Can we get into one of your clubs tonight, maybe bypass a line since we did this today? I mean, these guys haven't wired in now. Trust me, I know they do. I'm worried about myself.

I mean, just do the Instagram and do it to the front of the line and have the doorman hit you right away. Okay. All right. I'm all in. Yeah, you got to do the play. Should we fire it up tonight or what? I can't, but I will. Why?

What do you have to do? I'm just tired. I just landed an hour ago. What does that mean? I'm in then. You can't drink a happy daddy? Come out? I'm in.

I'm in fucking. You know, it's a little weird. You know? Which Grubman property we are going tonight Is the question I like to hop around We could do a little story A little live

A little Camodo Maybe have a bite of poppy steak Of course come to winkers Whatever should definitely go to poppy steak Today's Friday though You haven't been there yet I haven't been there I'm so down

Poppy Steaks fire Is it all I haven't spent a ton of time And they serve happy dads in the Like they get a chilled glass And they pour the happy dad in the chilled glass It's nice It's nice

Every time I'm here I go to Camoto And I assume this is all comps right You know, poppy sticks 93 seats You guys got to pay What? You're gonna fucking ruin my relationship With Groutman Yo, I'm gonna have my own entity

I'll send you a dessert I'll send you a dessert I figured I would have said that or some shit I don't know you would say that All right I think this is great right Dave I appreciate it You're the man Thank you so much

King of Miami Thank you so much Thank you so much