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Strap in as we escort you through the neon-lit corridors of club promotion, where Davion shares the evolution of his career from flyer handouts to owning the marquee. Listen as he recounts the adrenaline-pumping throngs at Mist and the strategic moves behind the scenes with club moguls. Davion's journey isn't just about the bass drops and flashing lights—it's a masterclass in persistence and the art of creating experiences that etch themselves into the very fabric of Scottsdale's after-dark tapestry.
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Speaker 3:Do you know what?
Speaker 2:it is the song that you sing. No, I'm shocked.
Speaker 3:Really why.
Speaker 2:Damn, damn, damn damn.
Speaker 3:I wonder why you would be shocked, my friend, I think it's outcast and I expect you to know outcast.
Speaker 2:I do know outcast.
Speaker 3:Ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shade. This is Seasonable Cloud. This is my I think like my third interview, and I'm up here with Davey on GQ Jones. This is a friend of mine and somewhat of a family member. I don't trust him that much, but I do trust him that much. I'm just playing with you, man. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2:brother, I'm doing fantastic brother.
Speaker 3:I want to thank you for coming by this seasonable cloud. I'm going to give a clap now. I think this is my clap button. I don't have my hair phone, so I just got a call. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I just kind of got a guess, did you hear it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I heard it. That was clapping what.
Speaker 3:How are you doing today, brother?
Speaker 2:You know we're getting ready for the weekend, so I'm doing all right.
Speaker 3:We do start work tomorrow night, man.
Speaker 2:Yes, for the whole weekend, possibly. Possibly, sunday's coming huh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, Hopefully. Who do? We got coming tomorrow though?
Speaker 2:Oh, Lloyd, we got Lloyd R&B singer.
Speaker 3:This is his birthday, right.
Speaker 2:It is Ain't that your favorite R&B singer?
Speaker 3:No, oh, come on, man You're going to.
Speaker 1:He's not, I can say it honestly, but he's not OK.
Speaker 3:I like Lloyd's music. That's how you get out of that man when I was in college.
Speaker 2:He had some heat for me. He had some heat, oh OK.
Speaker 3:Where'd you go to college at?
Speaker 2:I went to NAU and I went to ASU.
Speaker 3:So you really went to college.
Speaker 2:I did, man, I had the full experience.
Speaker 3:Everybody was telling me you didn't go to college, you dropped out of high school and you were seven, yeah, wasted a lot of money. No, just did you. Really you feel like it?
Speaker 2:I'm a promoter.
Speaker 1:Oh, I actually own a club now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm still a promoter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I plan on really diving into all of that. So so tell me where you from.
Speaker 2:first, let's get this simple stuff out of the way. You're trying to be funny. That's why you're asking this question when I'm from.
Speaker 3:From Germany, germany, yeah, you know what I have next, ladies and gentlemen, 9. 9. I found it out. Once I found out I was from Germany, I went and looked up what 9 means.
Speaker 1:What does it mean? It means no, does it? Yeah, I didn't know that 9.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. When you have a kid, you be like 9. You just try and touch a plug or something, 9. Ok, anyway, born in Germany. What was that like?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It had a lot of snow. Was it really A lot of snow? That's all I remember Snow and yellow boots, snow boots, and they used to have people pushing the carts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like food Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you buy food. People push the carts Street food out there. Yeah, this is probably like 1980, 1989, 90. Yeah, showing your age.
Speaker 3:How long were you there?
Speaker 2:I don't know honestly, because I just found out I lived in Texas. You just found out, I just found out I lived in Texas and I had no clue. Do?
Speaker 3:you remember the Germany trip to Texas? No, not at all.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:No, but you would feel like what I was in tornado had no clue.
Speaker 2:Really yeah, I lived in Oakland when that big earthquake happened in like 90, whatever year, that was 90 something.
Speaker 3:You remember the earthquake?
Speaker 2:Nah, they said I was on the little tricycle.
Speaker 3:Hold on, man. So you went from the To 9. To 9? Yeah, to Gun Toten, texas right, and you to Oakland. To Oakland, yeah, you lived through an earthquake. I never been in an earthquake. I'm terrified bro.
Speaker 2:Listen, I don't remember it, thank God. Yeah, because I feel like all the manly hood I have in me would leave in an earthquake today.
Speaker 3:Would you ever move back to Cali, not Oakland, just because of that? No.
Speaker 2:It's not the reason why I don't think any. Nah, I'm gonna say that San Diego is the place I would go. Yeah, San Diego's on my spot. That's the retirement place.
Speaker 3:That's my vacation spot right there. You know parents, were they from Germany or Nah?
Speaker 2:military.
Speaker 3:Military, yeah, and wouldn't your dad serve in the military? What was he?
Speaker 2:You know that's a good question. Both of them were in the Army, though. Both your parents were in the Army.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know that, and I'm your friend for a decade.
Speaker 2:You assumed for some reason that women aren't in the Army. It sounds like.
Speaker 3:That's not. Wow, that's horrible. I would never Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you always said my dad, you know so-so. I'm sorry about that, ladies. I didn't. I don't think like that. He's lying, he's a liar and I wouldn't trust him. I do trust him, but, um, so you made. You made the Germany, you made the Texas, you made the Oakland right? Is that where you, like teenage years, grew up?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, you came out here too. Came out here. Yeah, came out here and went to high school out here. Any specific reason why I came out here, or just you know, I don't think I ever asked my parents that question.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Because the Air Force is here. So it wasn't that Probably because it was cheap. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So you, here in the Valley of the Sun and it's hot in the sun, bitch, you know what I'm saying. What were some of the things you did? You remember as a young teen, we talking I always like to ask people that's nostalgic stuff. We talking food, we talking TV shows, we talking cartoons. Give me something you remember as a kid or as a teenager you would eat. You had just had to have you. You had to go get in and chow down on.
Speaker 2:Man, uh, we, I didn't have no good chow down stuff. Only thing I remember growing up we used to get the packets of Kool-Aid and get about half the container of the sugar and just Baw there's diabetes in a cup. That's what I remember as a kid.
Speaker 3:You had like a Kool-Aid in the morning. Kool-aid in the morning.
Speaker 2:You was living like me. Yeah, Big ol' jug of Kool-Aid me and my partner.
Speaker 3:I don't remember. I wasn't a big water drinker as a kid. It was only like Did you ever have the Tampico juice? That gave you heartburn.
Speaker 2:I did have that. I remember Tampico and that shit used to hit. It was cheap. We should try to find it again and bring it to the club.
Speaker 3:That's you just bringing poison. You know what I'm saying? Just poison On top of poison. With that I used to get that pink Used to give me heartburn and made my eyes water.
Speaker 2:Have you had Hawaiian punch lately? Who Hawaiian punch? Have you had that lately? I haven't had that in a long time. I don't even know if it's still around.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's all diabetes and a good cup of fruit toast corn syrup. I don't mind it though.
Speaker 2:But you wasn't into the Once a month. You'd be good, you'd deal with it.
Speaker 3:You wasn't into the ramen noodles. Back when you was a kid, you wasn't tearing up the ramen noodles and nothing like that.
Speaker 2:Dry ramen noodles Dry. Yeah, we didn't even do the water, I remember that, did you peep in, brother Sun?
Speaker 3:That's what she was basically doing. She would get the noodles, crunch them up, put them in the bag, put the seasoning in there and eat them.
Speaker 2:I know about Brother Sun is that I can't say that? Only thing I know about Brother Sun is I remember Just the food was incredible in that TV show.
Speaker 3:The food was incredible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just made me realize, why yeah.
Speaker 3:I got you. You got a thing for Asian women. I got you, We'll get on in and all that stuff. You know what I'm saying? Oh, you stuck. Now you got to understand. Ladies and gentlemen, before this happened, this guy I told you.
Speaker 2:Hey, I warned you, he wanted to go to you. Go there, I'm going to burn it down.
Speaker 3:Jerry, jerry. He really wanted to get in on it, but so Brother Sun was a good. It's Netflix, ladies and gentlemen, if you have not seen that show. It's fantastic Brother. It's fantastic. Please fire it up immediately and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2:Shay, I hope you don't get mad at me while I do this, but it's.
Speaker 3:No, you can do whatever man. It's cool, it's my shit, we good man, you can have fun, enjoy yourself, man. What do you have right here?
Speaker 2:This is some wine that I still don't have my cup for.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh shit. Just you know what? Tell them a story and I'm going to get the cup.
Speaker 2:We started drinking red wine, because I was in the club drinking way too much and you know we got to get a replacement for this liquor. So we do red wine. It's good for the blood, it's good for the heart. So everybody that's old yeah, actually, people ain't even old, no more People that are having some issues with their blood. Oh, look at this. This is from the gods. Is it good? Come here. Yeah, it's good. Ain't nothing in there? Oh, ok, god, sit me cup. What's up? How's it strong?
Speaker 1:No, we're not going to use this straw.
Speaker 2:Actually, straws are kind of hard to clean. Um yeah, oh shit. Yes, if you are having some troubles and you need an alcohol replacement, red wine is your friend.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Look at that, you pour it. You pour it like you work in a club, dude. That's what's up. That was a little sensitive, but you pour it like you work in a club Just a little. And why did you, even Before we even continued? Why did you even switch to red wine? Did you tell them why?
Speaker 2:No, because it's good for your blood, it's good for the heart. I think it's really good for the heart actually Did you talk to them.
Speaker 3:Can I talk to them about that? Why you even?
Speaker 2:I gave them a little snippet. Oh, you did. Okay, you can jump in it, you know it, you know everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you said your blood pressure was high, right? Yes, extremely it was extremely high.
Speaker 2:There was a In the doctor's office like hey, young man, you had lost weight from the last time we seen you and your blood pressure was high, you feeling dizzy? I was like no, I'm not dizzy, what's up? Dr Walked in he was like yeah, cut that drink. And I was like What'd he say? Cut that shit out.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Okay, I got you. Yeah, so from March of last year all the way up to probably like August, september yeah, we was on that red wine, really yeah. Then last couple months, though, you'd have got that poison got back in me, so I had to change it up.
Speaker 3:Now, where'd I leave off at you remember.
Speaker 2:Mmm, we were talking about nine.
Speaker 3:I thought I'd see, if you remember. Anyway, we was talking about Brother Sun at the TV show.
Speaker 2:We were probably like oh, it hit me, we were talking about Brother Sun and you wanted to bring up why you think I love Asian women.
Speaker 3:Well, hold on. So look at you, I ain't just to get to it.
Speaker 2:I ain't just to get to it.
Speaker 3:Teen wise. Teen wise, though you were a sports fanatic. You grew up playing sports.
Speaker 2:Play basketball. You know what man we're going to go back to? I did Taekwondo, Did you really? Gymnastics? You're going to be so mad at me right now.
Speaker 3:Bro, you did gymnastics. I didn't know none of this. I'm not mad at you for doing gymnastics. No, no, no, no, not that reason. I've seen you whoop a lot of ass. I know what it is, uh, yeah.
Speaker 2:You did not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's not what I was reason about to say that. Ok, um, no-transcript man, this shows my age. We used to be the jump in the air like do a move and I'd be able to do the splits Easy, 100 push-ups easy and the other days are over. But yeah, we did, type Warndo, and then it turned me into basketball, played basketball all the way to LaBow College and then Is that what got you to college?
Speaker 3:Basketball got you to college Pretty much.
Speaker 2:That's why I went to NAU to try to play ball out there. Oh okay, that's dope.
Speaker 3:So when you got to NAU, man, how was that college life? How long were you there in NAU?
Speaker 2:Two years, two years, two and a half years. It's cold up there, right yeah.
Speaker 3:Much like Flagstaff right, or is it Flagstaff right?
Speaker 2:It's like negative five degrees out there right now.
Speaker 3:Negative five yeah. Woo. Yeah, it is. Did it ever get that bad while you up there?
Speaker 2:A couple times. A couple times it got real cold out here and it actually snowed. Snowed in Phoenix, but it was more like Belle Road, I think, it was snowing.
Speaker 1:Shae, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2:Why, every time I come over here, you don't like turning your AC on.
Speaker 3:Well, so check this out. I actually haven't had anybody in here, it hasn't been hot like that, and I apologize. I actually heard Greg said it, yeah he did say it and I meant to turn the AC on and I got you.
Speaker 2:I don't want to ever see this. Oh wait, it's a Wait, wait, do it again. I was going yeah, I got to do it, hold on.
Speaker 3:So I did notice it was hot. I just forgot to hit the AC. So now the AC is on, now you can feel good, it's all right man.
Speaker 2:I'm supposed to be comfortable in here.
Speaker 3:You're about to be real comfortable, man. I got you, so you did pass Cabala at AU. You did two years up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I had to get up out of there.
Speaker 3:So how do we get to Davion the promoter? What's?
Speaker 2:going on man oh. I don't know why I'm doing that. I'm sorry, yeah, ok, well, how do we get to?
Speaker 3:Davion the promoter Davion GQ Jones. How do we get there?
Speaker 2:How did I get to promote? I was passing out Flyers out there for my trainer, my today trainer. Now His name is Jay Stray. He was a promoter Shout out to.
Speaker 3:Jay Stray. I actually know him. He's a buff moth fuckers. He's a solid, human. Yeah, you want some training. You go to Jay.
Speaker 2:Stray.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:He'll make sure you good. Yeah, man, he was doing parties out there. He did someone like Lil Wayne did a Playboy party. He was solid. So I was the Flyer guy. Yeah, Took some of his knowledge, brought it down here, Me and him, a couple of my fellas. We brought two short. I think two short was our first event.
Speaker 3:That was your first event by yourself, me and like three of my friends, but it was your name. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 2:Team GQ came from. It was actually a team. It was me and somebody else that owned it and, yeah, we did a party. It was cool.
Speaker 3:It was cool how much was two short at the time, like five grand. You got him for five grand. Yeah, it was extremely cheap, really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was extremely cheap. Wow, not no more, yeah it's not no more.
Speaker 3:It was crazy.
Speaker 2:He's probably even more relevant back then, but you know price went up for everything. Yeah, we did like Uncle Luke. That was our last party.
Speaker 3:So OK, so two short was first. Yeah, and do you remember where you did it? At Jack wire.
Speaker 2:Jack club.
Speaker 3:OK, got you. So it was that. It was it. Was it busy? Was it packed out? Was that a home run?
Speaker 2:It was packed. Yeah, yeah, both all of our events did real well. We did day 26.
Speaker 3:Whoever, if y'all so wait, so you go too short.
Speaker 2:No, we actually did day 26 first, day 26 first. Yeah, then we did too short, too short, uncle Luke, oh, we have Bobby.
Speaker 3:V. Yeah, bobby, so you did like four or five events.
Speaker 2:Four, four, four events at Jax.
Speaker 3:And these were all one, also pretty much Once a month, once a month, and you worked that out. Did you work that out with Jack? Why is it just? Somebody else worked it out.
Speaker 2:Probably me and my partner.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm very interested because you're you very smart numbers and people love you. You do deals really well, so I was curious on who set that up. You all right, the AC come on.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about the deal. The deal wasn't.
Speaker 3:It was. It was a horrible. It wasn't a horrible deal, not that great of a deal.
Speaker 2:It was OK at the time.
Speaker 3:OK for the times it was OK.
Speaker 2:I was the only person doing stuff at Jax, so that's really where when I did my first actual club event, it did real, real well because it transferred over, oh nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you two. We said too short Day 26,. You said Bobby V, I'm missing one in there.
Speaker 2:Too short, Uncle Luke.
Speaker 3:Uncle Luke. Listen how was Uncle Luke bro? Inside of a strip club. And that was our last strip club event. That was it why. Because?
Speaker 2:it was yeah, the party got shut down. My man got on stage and was like we going to have the longest pussy eating contest of all time, so he started lying in strippers. Wait he started lining up strippers on stage to eat pussy and I remember the owner. Was he the owner of the club with the GM at the time? The GM at the time. And he ran up there I was like nah, I snatched that mic up, like yeah, this motherfucker over, we not eating.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:We have no pussy eating in the club tonight.
Speaker 3:Damn, he had it on.
Speaker 2:And that was it. Well, technically, bro, if people walk in there and you just see people just eat pussy on stage, you know, Jax got that big stage like the whole crowd can see it yeah. Yeah, it would have been a bad, bad thing. Damn it was legendary time.
Speaker 3:Good time though, yeah. So you, we look up, and you then did four or five of them good things at Jaguars. I'm assuming you had made great money versus what you was making in the NAU days, bro, I was selling shoes out of a trunk.
Speaker 2:So yes, really yeah.
Speaker 3:Is that some of the things you did when you was making some money up there selling shoes out of the trunk?
Speaker 2:Shoes, the fake Jordans. It was the good.
Speaker 3:You were selling people fake Jordans man.
Speaker 2:Good quality.
Speaker 3:You were selling people fake Jordans, man Good quality jump man.
Speaker 2:You know the CDs, dvds of course I used to have the baby making music CDs for everybody. You had your own mix.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, man, who was you writing markers on? What was your write on there?
Speaker 2:Probably like baby making projects. Oh, wow, yeah, I was the R&B god out there, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:You still call yourself the R&B god. We don't believe it. But you know, and it's a way to prove it, if you pull out one of them goddamn baby making projects, man, I'll believe you, but you ain't got to just approve it. I don't believe it, man. So, ok, we look up, you got those events. How do you move in to, you know, to nightlife? How do you get into a weekly situation? Because a lot of people, a lot of you have a lot of guys, girls, they ask how do you get into nightlife? It's a to me it's a very hard thing to do, but you know, you telling me a journey and you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I was just looking at these pictures. Last night I threw a Halloween party. Yeah, I threw a Halloween party at Mist. You remember Mist? I do remember Mist. Yeah, I did a party there at one off and man, we had like we probably had like a thousand people show up.
Speaker 3:You gotta tell people where Mist was. Where is it?
Speaker 2:Mist nightclub is now where Maya is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so people don't know Old Town Scottsdale. If you've never been to Old Town Scottsdale, it's just you call it a square or you're like a square right. It's just full of bars and clubs, yeah, and hotels, and at the time it was even better. They just now it's like hotels and stuff. I think it was like at the time the W was still there, right.
Speaker 2:W and A loft, and that's it, and that was it, and it was just nothing but clubs and bars and just man.
Speaker 3:But you said you threw one at Mist, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did Halloween party and, like I said, we had it probably. Like yeah, like not, people show up.
Speaker 3:Nine hundred.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy, crazy event. And then the week later they call me into a meeting them people probably don't even know this name. This guy, Les Les, is like the owner of all those clubs yeah, call me into a meeting and was like, yeah, we have this place called Suede and we have the club that you just did. You know your event at Mist, our Fridays are good, but our Saturdays are kind of not good, right, and then our Fridays at Suede are not good either. You want to take them both and just handed me you pretty much handed me the keys, like here you're the promoter for both these clubs.
Speaker 3:Now, really, yeah, and no less is less.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if the story, if people actually know who he is, it's absolutely crazy, because they don't know who I am, they don't know what I do. They knew me throwing one party. Yeah, that's that. Come on, young black man, come on here, take this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was a I've been promoting ever since.
Speaker 3:Now I can't, I can't say much, but if I could say all the jokes that I want to make, that means you know he basically was Django. You know what I'm saying. Oh shit, dude, but that's a that's a big deal. Man and I and I actually had been in Suede. Me and Craig Visions would go to Suede. Yeah, man, but y'all was real strict on the dress code at one point. You know what I'm saying and you know it was hard to get in some points, but I used to go there.
Speaker 2:I actually forgot At first we weren't even playing all hip hop. It was a, it was top 40.
Speaker 3:When was when was this way move? When was this 2010? 10.
Speaker 2:OK, got you. So we got a time we show on that age now.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, we're a little sure about we're good. Yeah, you're showing that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 2010. We started it off, but as the nights got busier and busier, people were leaving because of the like we'll play hip hop. And then, all of a sudden, it'd be like I don't know. Like Katy Perry get played and everybody's like, look, look, we should be playing this for. So at one point we just like, oh, it's all hip hop now.
Speaker 3:What Well the like, what makes promoting just like the bees knees, the bees wax, the bees juice was? Why do you enjoy it?
Speaker 2:Haven't worked since 2009. Right, haven't had a clock, haven't clocked in since then. Now, you know, you know, specifically, promoting is not always as what it seems. It's tough, it's tough. It comes with a lot of patience Is the best word to use.
Speaker 3:A lot of headaches. You've worked for a lot of a lot of interesting owners yeah. Well, what would do is this You're doing a sway, you're doing Missed on Friday, sway Saturday, right, did I get that Right?
Speaker 2:Swayed on Friday. Swayed on Saturday.
Speaker 3:Next Saturday yes, so those were successful situations for you.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:What happens? Well, as far as like did they, did they did you move on to another spot?
Speaker 2:Oh no, both of the places closed to make Maya and what's over there now.
Speaker 3:This was district district, no district. I don't know over there anymore, hi-fi, hi-fi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they built all them clubs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they built a but yeah, they closed for that and then we moved over. To when did I go? I went to Ocean 7 right after my god. That was a scary time in life.
Speaker 3:Well, why was that a scary time in life?
Speaker 2:Um, not Ocean 7, just not knowing where to go next. Yeah, because, yeah, you made a certain way of living and the way you lived was secured, and then when they shut down, it's just oh yeah, it was almost like COVID, but now we went over to Ocean 7. I Deal with some wild stuff over there. Then I met Corey me and Corey in a rocket with each other for a while, for like a good year and a half, moved over to a club called Roxy, I Remember.
Speaker 1:Roxy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, roxy man, oh, roxy. And then good ol revolver, good ol revolver, yeah, and that's where I met you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure, for sure you and eventually turns into to get me out of some. You know it felt like I was Careful. Now wait, I felt like I was in. A lot of people don't notice, but I was in a 365 deal at our 360 deal at a record label and it was. They was getting over on me big time and he said, man, you know the over there, you know they get Nova. I can't say what I want to say, you know. So they get over to death with no grease, yeah and yeah.
Speaker 3:And then we go over to international and anybody's been to International knows how legendary of a nightclub that was. In that experience and going through that inside of International. This is a great thing because people here are going to you and people outside you know, like, what is like Imagine international. We had everybody. So people got set this up. We had anybody's, anybody's celebrity outside of, like a Drake or we had a chance for him Outside of a Drake or Beyonce or Jay-Z. We pretty much had anybody that you can think of and it was always, you know, from Thursday to Sunday. It was always Fun times for the people that came through the door. We stayed busy is an incredible Environment for people to come in and have a good time. We any celebrity that you can remember that came in there. You had a one-on-one Demics moment. Okay, yeah, okay, that was. That's a one-on-one moment, nice right.
Speaker 3:That was. What did you say? What do you remember? I don't know exact words.
Speaker 2:I just know it was. It wasn't like what was he saying of this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you don't have me chime in, but I don't want to just you know, I remember what he said, I just remember. I know he talked about how people stopped booking him and he appreciated us for having him Come out there and perform and for us to keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 3:And it was a weird moment Because DMX is DMX to me, you know yeah and to see his face and to see Like a little bit of like I don't say full blown pain, just a little bit of pain In his face, but also some appreciation and some words. Man, it meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even like a regular, like yeah, it was a real conversation. It's like hey, y'all come over here and talk to me real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was cool um, what about uh?
Speaker 3:your best performance you've seen inside uh.
Speaker 2:I don't know what the best one is, but my most fun performance was 50 cent. For sure, 50 cent.
Speaker 3:Why 50 cent, though, man?
Speaker 2:He was jamming with us looking at our phones while we was right next to him he's jumping on stage talking trash. It was, uh, 50 cent for sure, yeah he was on people's face times and everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was, it was fun and he was talking about you got on stage for free. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:We got him on stage for free. Oh yeah, we did get him for free.
Speaker 3:You're not gonna be.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3:I think it was an old one, right, he old as one, yeah, yeah, the oldest one, and he came in there and jammed out right, yeah it was. It was pure, pure fun. Um, so you enjoyed, uh, 50 cent. Um, as far as a scale of like, damn, you're shocked to have them inside the club. Or it could be athlete, it could be artists, who would you say?
Speaker 2:Oh, uh.
Speaker 3:The Warriors the Warriors yeah, right with Kevin Durant, sign right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they was. Yeah, they was jamming in the middle of dance floor. Oh, man had his head of shirt off with the 42. Yeah, everybody was in there having a good time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's that. That's it's really about marlin.
Speaker 2:The people enjoyed it, though, because they were sure they were shocked on the floor, kevin.
Speaker 3:Durant is on the floor. Yeah, dancing, having a good time, didn't? Uh, that's you saw my draemon. He had his shirt. Yeah, had his shirt off. I still got. I probably got that video so.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna try to add do you got it?
Speaker 3:I got it about foe Um, yeah, uh, uh, t-pain was a big deal, like when we had t-pain, I see they almost got fantastic perform. What happened? I almost got fired. Remember.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know. Yeah, because I was like don't we not gonna get into it? But yeah, I almost got fired that weekend. I mean, dole boy Dole was not fucking with me at that time. Yeah, he was not fucking with me. Yeah, I had a whole separate meeting between everybody.
Speaker 3:You know I'll jump the timeline ahead because I got a bunch of other stuff we want to talk to you about. I'll jump the timeline ahead. We go through covid was pretty much Finished the situation. Well, I know there was a background thing where the leads couldn't get signed and that's why international closes. But covid did a nice little one, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two and that's what pretty much iced us at international right. So, boom, um, post-covid right, where were you at?
Speaker 2:downtown phoenix, downtown right, honor in true, yeah, crazy time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you remember having the. Do we still have the place? No, we do we still. We move downtown down. Do we still have the, the plexiglass up, and Was that a thing or was there? I think I remember.
Speaker 2:I think we did on the side tables.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had the plexiglass. Such a fucking why. So I couldn't believe anyway. So, and then down and we broke a lot of rules. There was a lot of fines given out, yeah.
Speaker 2:Mr New Year's Eve. Yeah, it got because we was wallowing. This is a perfect time to talk about this during covid. I feel like when we somewhat open back up at that time, people just stopped giving the fuck Because we were in there, we had our mask on or we, you know elbow. One man people was in there Drinking bottles after each other's.
Speaker 2:I meant kissing in the club I meant and this is, this still is the time where people were still, you know, still somewhat scared. Um, we said, hey, you can come back outside. And everyone in Arizona said I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3:No, rules yes, out the window, out the window. But New Year's I remember you talking about New Year's and I remember they was rushing that front door and it got so bad and so packed, he just had to let them go. They rushed up in that motherfucking somehow got it under control. Um, I had to, you know, cover John's wife. I had to cover.
Speaker 2:Because they was just like, new Year's was a halloween, that was halloween, it was halloween, it was halloween. Yeah, here's halloween.
Speaker 3:We don't play about halloween down here. We get down for the halloween Um downtown. Did you think downtown would work when we were promoting? Did you think it would work?
Speaker 2:Not the way it did yeah, not the way it did. Uh, uh, it was a lot, of, a lot of terrible nights. Um, even when true first started, we did true man. We had like a good grand opening, a good month, two months, and then that motherfucking died on us, yeah. And then it took Some work. Yeah, it took some real work. A lot of money not from us, we didn't. At that time I had to spend the money really.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes, I did.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, yes, I did, I forgot, um. But yeah, man, it took a lot of work, a lot of effort from a lot of people to get that thing going, but once it, once it got going, it was, it was rocking and rolling, yeah it was a oil machine.
Speaker 3:What would you say the difference? This was from downtown in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2:The amount of the amount of money people will spend.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's really though.
Speaker 2:That's really the only difference? Um, I guess you no, I don't want to say that Um, just the amount of money people spend. People might dress up a little bit more in Scottsdale also.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we couldn't get no celebrities, no, no, no athletes to come down, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I wasn't trying to say that. Um, yeah, is that what you were saying? Yeah, it's the truth, though they won't come.
Speaker 3:It's wild because downtown they didn't did a lot with downtown, all right, downtown didn't did a lot with it and you can't get in. You can't get an athlete to sniff downtown outside of. They got to play the the Sun's arena already at the, at the, at the diamond backs.
Speaker 2:It was very, very few that came in, very few yeah and downtown is down here.
Speaker 3:It's not Scary, it's not spooky. You know, I've been to downtown Detroit. I ain't gonna say no more, I know.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people I hear from Detroit. They, yeah, no, they don't?
Speaker 3:um. So I want I do want to get the timeline boosted. So we go Downtown and then there's a situation that happens for you. How do you end up becoming your own nightclub? You know an owner of a nightclub, you own your own. Damn it, I can't say it. Your own, your own nightclub. How does that happen? You take us to the story. Don't leave no details out. How does it happen? Man, uh man, because you what you 47 and you own 36, 36 and own a nightclub.
Speaker 3:Yeah, um me, choreo and you're blackity, black like you own, not blacky black in a bad way. But I'm saying like brothers get a chance hey you know, listen. I just don't get a chance to see you.
Speaker 2:I want you to hear this, bro, I told you I was looking at pictures from my first event. Yeah, I was just going through my timeline. Yeah and this person yesterday told me, dang shade actually looks like skin next to you and I was like, oh, I'm not.
Speaker 3:I'm not bro, not at all, not even yeah, for sure, for sure Next to me.
Speaker 2:But I'm sorry, I just had to throw that out there and mess me up a little bit um. Oh, uh, club me me choreo bootleg kev. Um, we were going back and forth on the location.
Speaker 3:Yeah because we had a potential opportunity of doing something downtown, Uh and then we had two locations involved, or was it three, or was it more? Three, mm-hmm three.
Speaker 2:Um, downtown, we, it just didn't seem to make sense. Yeah because we knew if we'd open something to scoste or grawlers of where it was, it's scoste, so it's, it's going to Do great, right, um? So we opened up a llc and then it was a search to find the liquor license. And the liquor license came and then after that it was just pretty much Be quiet, don't tell nobody, or don't tell a few people, uh, or lie to them, telling that we're opening somewhere else.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that, uh, that somewhere else got pretty popular because people can't hold water. Um, yeah, uh. And then, yeah, we announced uh, oh, actually, man, we made a, we made a page, said, international was coming back and it managed so much attention, um, and we were gonna bring international back.
Speaker 3:We're made to change from we had to.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, we had to, but you know we're happy. We're happy with the 1111 name.
Speaker 3:It uh, it's ours yeah that process for the liquor license was. That was that gangster, was that tough, very much so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because you can't be a felon, um, you can't be a felon on the liquor license. You can't, man, you can't do a lot of stuff, um, and it's a lot, a lot of money. Yeah it's a lot.
Speaker 3:Hey, you want to talk about how much you pay for the liquor license. Nope, 100,000.
Speaker 2:But if you try to go on, if you, if anyone tries to buy one now because the price goes up, it seems like all the time. Yeah, I look at license. If you can probably get one, it's probably like 250 grand, hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Sheesh weesh 200 grand? I don't know it's gonna be still yeah, it's still gonna hit, it's gonna range, yeah, it's still gonna hit. So you set it on location, um. And you got two other partners, booleg. And you got Corey, who was uh, vip enterprises, uh, um, mr VIP az, on instagram. And you got Booleg Kev, the very famous Booleg Kev Um, who just got his uh Radio show, if I'm correct, is just um taken off to another step, another higher level Um, how do you even know? Oh, booleg.
Speaker 2:Kev. Uh, he DJ'd with us. Um, he's DJ for Corey forever. Yeah, but, um, when we did the ocean seven thing, he was our DJ there every saturday. Yeah, um, he was on the radio then and just became came brothers, friends. That's what's up. Yeah, cuz it was 12 years ago. Keep showing that age man, oh yeah, just showing that age.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to stop you from showing the age, I'm just saying, how you know, we've been rocking for a while. Numbers on it a little funky man. So you uh locked in with your three guys and when you set on a location, what made you choose the location that you guys landed on?
Speaker 2:We would have been open for Super Bowl. That's really what it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, super Bowl was a big deal, yes, it was by any means necessary.
Speaker 2:We need to be open by then. Yeah, yeah OK.
Speaker 3:It. Gutting that thing out, because I remember it used to be Paris before it turned into 11, 11 nightclub. And gutting that thing out. What was the process for that? I mean, seriously, you say you got a location and it needs to be gutted. I mean, what was the first step you took for it?
Speaker 2:Oh, what was our first step? Taking pretty much all the lighting down.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We took all the lighting down and destroyed all the booths. Yeah, man, it was just pretty much clear out the whole building.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know you sent me a lot of ideas about different looks and stuff like that. How'd you land on the look? Who helped you with the look.
Speaker 2:Her name is Kelly. I don't know what her business name is. Yeah, yeah, kelly, her name's Kelly. I actually did an interview with her.
Speaker 3:If you go back to 2020, you'll find an interview with her.
Speaker 2:Ok, yeah, she's an interior designer. She actually helped us out tremendously, yeah, but she pretty much got us the layout of the club. The lights of the club were international and then the side lights of the club were another club that we're not going to talk about. Yeah, we got that idea from. I mean, it was a lot of hours, lots and lots of hours in that slot trying to get everything figured out.
Speaker 3:So so we talking about, do you, do you have like a hand in, like you know? Even ask me something, Wow no man, no man, I mean. So I remember the name process 1111, because you know there's another club is 1111. But you felt like there was some some separation from it. I'm assuming that's how you landed on.
Speaker 2:There's a their spell that 11. Yeah, yeah, ours is numbers. There's probably another 1111 somewhere.
Speaker 3:It is. 1111 is a popular man. It's a popular thing.
Speaker 2:So go nationally. You look to see who owns that name. It ain't going to be nobody with us, so that's all that matters.
Speaker 3:That's all that matters when Super Bowl lands, because I know that that journey to get the club up and functioning before that Well, you opened up New Year's Eve for was that going into 2023? Right, as you open up New Year's Eve, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 23. What were some of, just like some of the city hurdles?
Speaker 2:You know it's crazy Nothing, no city hurdles.
Speaker 1:They gave us this.
Speaker 2:They made us take these clouds down. Then you walked in the entrance. They want us to take down, like the grass stuff on the walls.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When it comes to Opening man, they were actually surprisingly very, very nice and lenient with us. Really, yeah, it was, it was super simple.
Speaker 3:That's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the only. Yeah, they were simple. Only issue we ever had really was a who was our sexy rat? My God, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I got you. Super Bowl comes. We the the booking process for that, because a lot of people don't know how bookings work. And I'll use Super Bowl to, because it's big time, big names. There's dollar bills involved. How do your booking processes work? When it came to Super Bowl, how did you like it and who you wanted to like in on? Who did you have Super Bowl?
Speaker 2:Bullet kept it there all that. Listen, that man is the goat when it comes to this business, when it comes to these artists. He took care of everything. Who do we have? We have fab Bootle, right. Friday was all set and Cardi B came through. Yeah, bootle, meek Mill, bootle, yeah. And then what?
Speaker 3:No, I'm a set for dinner tonight, because a set for it was there for For Meek Mill.
Speaker 2:Oh, he came that night. Yeah, he had a lot of people show up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the night of Offset and Cardi B Tiffany.
Speaker 2:Hatch was there.
Speaker 3:Michael Blackson was there. Everybody that was pretty much a dagger for Kat Williams is there. So yeah, For those processes of booking people, though you've booked people before.
Speaker 2:Millions of times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, have you gotten cooked? On bookings Once.
Speaker 2:But this is the law. I didn't get cooked. What was the process? What happened? We sent somebody some money. So back in the day, if you look at you on a book, somebody, let's go. You go on Twitter and they'll usually have their booking email on their Twitter and it was actually Meek Mill and he was like Meek Mill, bookingcom was his actual booking email, right?
Speaker 2:The person that sent the money to had an S at the end yeah, so we got the contract, contract legit, sent the money. I said the money. He was like oh, yeah, I got it. Who phone off? Yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 2:So I like 30 minutes I'm just chilling. After 30 minutes, no, start panicking and call my lawyer. Actually, my lawyer is like go to the bank, tell him what happened, tell him the freeze account. I go to the bank and they're like nah, your money gone. My lawyer was like okay, I'm on speakerphone. My lawyer's like all right, yeah, I'm gonna head up there Because I know the money's not gone when he gets sent out at this time. It's just a wire, they can freeze the wire. And they heard it. And they're like oh yeah, you're right, we'll freeze it. Then they went to go look at the guy's account that I sent the money to and you can just see a history of like oh, this might be fraud, yeah, they were. Yeah, pretty much the account was fraud. And I remember the lady at the bank. She was just like hey, he's getting pizza here. This is where the address is going to. The pizza is getting delivered here at this address. You can get your money here. This is where he keeps ordering stuff and it goes to this address.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah it gave me the address and everything but nothing even they froze it.
Speaker 2:They did their investigation. I got like it was like $25,000. I got back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, lesson mark yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, there's, the industry is actually very, very small, yeah, so if you're dealing with somebody for the first time or you're, you can call somebody and they can find out for you, like, yeah, this is legit, it happens actually all the time. That's cool yeah. A lot of times now because the relationship either me, corey, you, whoever booked, or bootleg the way we do business now is a lot different than probably what everybody else has to deal with because of the relationships.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, relationships matter.
Speaker 2:Very much so.
Speaker 3:Okay, All right, Cool. So you, you, Super Bowl goes and passes the clubs up and functioning Um, you proud of. You know what it's turned out to be for us for this. First we've been ship. We went through a whole year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm proud of what it has become Um, but we got some work to do this year for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got some work. Some of the some of the more cool artists you had this year inside the club, who would you enjoy?
Speaker 2:Damn. I enjoy the most. Honestly, I enjoyed Cardi B the most, and she wasn't somebody we booked, she just showed up, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Um, the energy was different for her. Soon, she hit the stage. They were this is hard. So a lot of times, if you get the right, I feel like you get the right artists to come through. People forget how to party. Oh yeah, they just, they just stay. Yeah, and they were staying cause they was like they couldn't believe that. She like right here I try to reach her but yeah might shoot me. So you have a year of 11 11. It's open, successful, it's running, and now you have a restaurant on the way restaurant who Galaunch yeah.
Speaker 3:Well seasoned Well seasoned.
Speaker 2:Be, here within the next two weeks, because I know y'all going through it.
Speaker 3:What are some of the issues you deal with right now? Yeah, I know y'all remodeling on the inside your license remodel time equipment getting delivered, breaking it is because you know, you know, you got Yelp, you got, you got Instagram foodies, you got, you know, food is different man it is a lot of pressure when it comes to food I got I'm, I'm in a have confidence in my chef.
Speaker 3:Um, I make a mean batch of beanie weenies. If you ever want me to put it on the menu, I make a mean batch of beanie weenies.
Speaker 2:Vegan hot dogs.
Speaker 3:So, listen, I am vegan, but back when I was a young lad, I used to put in a pile of beanie weenies, of pork and beans and hot dogs. I put a little brown sugar up in that thing and I used to make it. Hey, I used to really smack that thing out of the park. So anytime you want me to bring something ghetto, fabulous to your menu, I got you.
Speaker 2:I actually just seen this, uh me and it was the most legendary meal I used to have back in the day. He's like the little sausage with the bread and mustard. You just fold it together.
Speaker 3:I asked you what you used to enjoy back in the day.
Speaker 2:You didn't tell me it hit me right now. My God, that was a legendary meal.
Speaker 3:Hey, uh, what time. So I want to get back to you. But what type of attention does uh, what type of car does a owner? Yeah, oh, the nightclub and a restaurant. I have a purple eye.
Speaker 2:It is the most annoying. He's a most annoying car, wow, okay, well, cause it's purple, I made the mistake of making it purple.
Speaker 3:Okay, gotcha, gotcha, yeah and doors go up. Have you felt like the energy from people has changed, from you, for you becoming? A promoter to an owner A little bit. What is your job?
Speaker 2:chain from promoter. My job doesn't change very much at all. I was sort of dealing with a you know, as you know, as a lot of owners would say, dealing with promoters are dealing with me is a. It's a challenge. Sometimes the the attention from women Does that. The attention from women has it elevated. I am single now, so are you. Yeah, yeah, the attention is looking at the camera looking at the camera right there, I thought I'd be looking the whole time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you single yeah, I've been a positive yeah.
Speaker 2:1000% Okay, 1000%, 1000% somebody got to put a ring on your finger first before we have zero rules.
Speaker 3:Gotcha, yes, okay, all right. Now. There's 20 of them that's going to DM you. There's 35 of them that's going to be upset and another 62 that's going to pull up. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of women. That's a lot. I know chamberlain would be impressed. That's a lot of women. Oh man, oh God, now look, now.
Speaker 3:So everybody didn't listen. Listen where we at Okay Cool, we got another. We're going to do about another 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:I'm listening.
Speaker 3:All right, so we got all that stuff out the way. You know, it's probably be some more stuff in there where I end up asking you. But listen, you're my friend, right? So do you remember making the journey from here to Bend, oregon, to go to the last blockbuster? Oh, the most racist place on earth. It felt like it was a lot of racism. And then, yes, I remember very well.
Speaker 2:Um, with it the empty hotel. That said they work at capacity. Yes, I remember.
Speaker 3:Tell them, tell them, tell them how that process, how that go.
Speaker 2:Oh, we was tired, so we pull off the side of the road, try to go to the hotel and get some sleep. We in Oregon now, right, yes, and the guy that ran desk is like, yeah, we're, we're sold out. I'm like what you boss, what you mean? I was just like you know what. I don't know this. Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't know who's going to come with a picket, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah, we was just going ahead to the right, we were going to bend and then, but it was cool because going to the last block but you understand the last blockbuster on earth and how much that meant to my childhood it was really cool, so fine. Then we met the lady, took a picture with the lady that was in the actual documentary that's on Netflix. You can go watch the document. If you never watched, I think it dropped 2020, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, during COVID sometimes yeah.
Speaker 3:They're dropped. During COVID and met the lady. She was a sweet lady and that experiences was crazy. I understand you're moving there to bend Oregon. Yeah, I understand you're moving there. You're getting a condo. You're going to move up there.
Speaker 2:There is a lot of beautiful women in Oregon but I would never in life moved to that place ever and the way you said the women I like, I would never move there, let me find, let me see.
Speaker 3:Um, I don't want to, I don't want to let y'all know something.
Speaker 2:Um, I'm probably not doing it as much now. Shade, he does not believe in keeping his house cool at all. Everyone, no, it's, I have it. It's all good, we're good, we're cool now. Yeah, we're cool. Um, but we have done this multiple times and you bro, I have it at 71.
Speaker 3:It's 50 something degrees outside. It's it's you don't feel no good, you good, somebody is somebody, yeah, really calling. Who is it? Uh, can't do it. Huh, can't pick up the phone, you wouldn't dare.
Speaker 2:You wouldn't dare. Yeah, I know you wouldn't dare. I almost, I almost did it, but no, do you plan on?
Speaker 3:getting a relationship anytime soon. Me or you love living the Tony Stark type life.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know. We're in a work in progress.
Speaker 3:Well, I know you, it's listen man.
Speaker 2:I'm working on myself.
Speaker 3:There you go, yeah, yeah, you know, you got a couple of candidates, damn, you got a couple of candidates.
Speaker 2:Oh you know, Damn oh my God.
Speaker 3:Is your parents proud of you for what you're doing? Man, as far as I, want to do it again.
Speaker 2:Look, I want y'all to see this. It's not 71. It's not 71. It is 71, bro, it's not?
Speaker 3:Bro, you're sweating because you have the lights on you. I see your forehead glistening, it's not. I don't even feel like it's glistening, bro, it's all good. You're sweating because you looked into that camera and you told them that you were single sir.
Speaker 2:Do me a favor, bring it down a little bit. We're going to fire this up. No, no, we good.
Speaker 3:No, no, we good, we got to finish this up. Don't be scared. Now we got 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:We got 10 minutes of fire.
Speaker 3:No, no, we good, we good. So tell me about that, you a nerd right.
Speaker 2:You should do that for me, though. You want to light down? No. That thing, the AC. Yeah, make me comfortable here. Come on, I'm a light up.
Speaker 3:You're a nerd man. Talk to me about it. Talk to me about your life.
Speaker 2:I'm actually getting a tattoo for Stranger Things. It's going to say 11, like the character Wait. Are you serious? Yes, really, man, he's brought it all the way down. Thank you, yes, I'm getting it. So the only reason I'm not going to do it, or I'm debating on not doing it, is because everybody keeps telling me that getting tattoos on your wrist right here numbers. It's like the mark of the beast Wait is that a real?
Speaker 2:thing. I have no clue. I'm a Christian. I don't know. I know, I know the mark, I know certain numbers. We all know, right, certain numbers. Yes, I just put 11. That's not bad, right, I didn't. I don't look it up, motherfucker.
Speaker 3:That's why we got phones. Let's look it up. Shit, let me see. Let me see here Tattoos One, rizz One.
Speaker 2:Rizz, rizz.
Speaker 3:Rizz Rizz, rizz Rizz. What's it? We said it was some devil stuff. Yeah, some devil stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me see.
Speaker 3:Devil. Oh man, no, no, no, no. You see you just type in yeah, I didn't. I think we might get kicked off Instagram for saying this, did you? Uh, you?
Speaker 2:know, you just type in you. Know, you just type in you know, you just type in you.
Speaker 3:Know, you just type in you know you just type in.
Speaker 2:You know you just type in. You just type in, you just type in. Did you type in Marvel the Beast?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Now it's. I don't want to do Wash. Do you see what, aaron?
Speaker 3:Rodgers was talking about. You see what's going on and bots cause it's just because we we talking about that. So you saw, he said it. Un mah, didn't you watch your way? He's seen nothing about Pat�만 Magу sini and in Aaron.
Speaker 2:Rodgers, no, my cables go.
Speaker 3:But you have the same stuff is it.
Speaker 2:What does it Called that you using your own home.
Speaker 3:Well, that's, that's private information Are like Tim with the public. But he basically was talking about how, um, excuse me y'all, jimmy Kimmel was going to uh, jimmy Kimmel was going to be up on the Epstein list and it was the most wildest thing. He said that, yeah, bro. And so Jimmy Kimmel got worried of it and he was, he was ticked off and so he went on and did his monologue on the show kind of you know, was putting them nukes down on on Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers didn't respond it and just pretty much made it even more weirder. And I've never. I was sitting there thinking of myself. I was like I've never really listened to Aaron Rodgers speak and I was like I don't like this dude Really. And I was a great quarterback, fantastic quarterback. I was like I don't really like this dude and I say that to you because you watch a lot of sports and you also believe in aliens. Um, that has nothing to do with it, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Hey are you good? Yeah, bro, your phone man.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's going on, yeah.
Speaker 3:You sure?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm very sure you was crazy. This is a good topic, right? I don't know what. There's no reason to call anybody five times, six times, seven times in 30 minutes this is the camera.
Speaker 3:It could be emergency. Yeah, they looking no, no, you don't have my last name.
Speaker 2:There's no reason to call that much ever in life Ever.
Speaker 3:You a text or call? You prefer a text or call.
Speaker 2:If I care about you, you can call me. If I don't care, do not call my phone. Just chase, because most of the time it's textable, but most of the time it's textable.
Speaker 3:Usually when people call multiple times, there is a. There's an importance to it. Would you like?
Speaker 2:to prove this, would you like to do a live phone call?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, I don't want to, because I think that that she's going to turn into a tornado bomb and I don't want any part of it.
Speaker 2:Both phones as we speak are going off.
Speaker 3:Only important people got both phone numbers. You know what I'm saying, so so.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 3:Can the Warriors rebound? We can finish this off, man. Can the Warriors rebound?
Speaker 2:All the important people have both phone numbers. No Warriors, they can't, unless they trade somebody they got to get rid of.
Speaker 3:Who do you want to get rid of?
Speaker 2:At this point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everybody. No, you have Curry years.
Speaker 1:No, I want to dream on still, of course, dream on stuff.
Speaker 2:Everybody else can go.
Speaker 3:Chill out on trigger.
Speaker 2:They all bring it back, they all can go, and you saying, chill out on them, you would take, you would take the trade if it was. That's it yeah.
Speaker 3:If it's it had, I don't again. I talked to you before. I would never trade clay.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:You a knockdown. Three point shooter is a is is luxury. Hey, In the NBA luxury.
Speaker 2:Recently, clay looks like me on no Job Monday. You are.
Speaker 3:The only reason I allow two of them in a row than air ball.
Speaker 3:The only reason I allow the Clay Thompson slander on this fantastic podcast is because when he did come to international, he promised me a pair of his shoes and he never followed through. That'd be the only reason I allow outside of. I believe that a three point shooter in the NBA is absolute goal, a knockdown. You can't get rid of them, you need to keep them. It's just, it's for sure. You know, don't look at me like that Just just accept it and say you'll get rid of the Wiggins, you'll get rid of the the.
Speaker 2:I don't want to get rid of Kaminka, I actually enjoy.
Speaker 3:Not. Kaminka can stay home, if we have to, I would. You get rid of Looney the whole. Oh my God Listen.
Speaker 2:I actually get rid of Gary Payne Jr. No, and I'm not, and I'm not. He can't stay on the court?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got to. And is there anything? Is there anything you want to share with everybody that you haven't? You know you haven't dove into Random. I always forget this. You're a target guy, right, target, or like target, yes, yes, okay, imagine you have the opportunity to go into target. You go shopping. You could take three celebrities with you, dead or alive. Who are you going shopping inside the target with?
Speaker 2:Dead or alive? Do I get the reactions of everybody when I walk into the store with them?
Speaker 3:If you want to, that's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tupac.
Speaker 3:Okay, probably Hitler, because of where you're from.
Speaker 2:Oh no, just Donald Trump Would you really Donald Trump, donald Trump, tupac, tupac and Malcolm X.
Speaker 3:Malcolm X.
Speaker 2:What are you doing? Making it interesting, it's, it's going to be eight.
Speaker 3:That's not even shopping. You don't even shop off of that.
Speaker 2:That's not. We're going to have a legendary day, that's just something, man.
Speaker 3:So somebody comes up to you young cat comes up, whatever that combination was, that's insane, by the way. Somebody come to you, man. I want to. I want to get into nightlife. I want to promote. I really want to be in the status because there are levels, it's like we call them sub promoters. Where they're, you know they help out and then you get to a status of being a natural promoter. You're on a weekly and you making promoter money. They want to get into that business. What do you tell them? I damn you got it cold in this, motherfucker Go ahead.
Speaker 2:It is right now.
Speaker 3:Wait what did you say it's frosty? It's frosty. Something's wrong with you, bro. We have issues, man. You put me on mute. Talk to Thad. No, tell them man, how, how, hey, listen, this is an ugly business. It comes. Yeah, tell them.
Speaker 2:It's an ugly ugly business. If you're a hothead, if you, if you expect things on time, my God, if you're not patient, don't do it. If you can, if you can build some patients and you're willing to just deal with a lot of bullshit for a little, bit of money at first.
Speaker 3:You work with some crooked owners some owners what's the owner?
Speaker 2:I work with crooked owners, promoters bottle people, bartenders I've worked with, we live, we work in probably the most disgusting. I can't say that because I know the music industry is crazy, but we work in one of the most like you see the worst out of humans, I think, as a promoter. Yeah, just have, just have patience if you want to get into it and it's not just partying for a living. It's far, far from that. If it is partying for a living, you ain't going to last that long.
Speaker 3:For sure. So they want to work for you. How can they get a job with you?
Speaker 2:They can't right now. We just we got a big team right now, so it wouldn't need to be pointless.
Speaker 3:How'd you put your team together?
Speaker 2:How do I put our team together? Two of the guys we've been working with forever, and then all the the let's just say, the promoters that we brought on after Nadia. Nadia was just a how do I just? How do we bring in Nadia? Nadia was just. She just deals with women very, very well Our bottle service girls, waitresses, other women in the city. She's a very liked person. His AP is Mr Outside. He's just like being outside. He is the actual definition of what a promoter is. Don Miliano he's ruling to the fashion industry, so he brings a different dynamic to the table. Real good with a video and photography, things like that. Who else we got JT? Jt is also the definition of a promoter.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. He is the turn up guy, he is. He is the turn up guy for sure.
Speaker 3:Let me ask you something. Yeah, it's a bottle service question being what we used to know as far as how bad, how mean, potentially bottle service girls can be to each other, right being more inside of it. Is this your staff that you have now? Have you seen any of that? Or you feel like this has been one of the? Some of women want to be in a bottle service and coming from your perspective as a promoter, yes, but I can't go into details with it, yes.
Speaker 2:Not as bad, because before it's been brutal, but you still see some nasty stuff, but that's.
Speaker 3:For the women that might want to get into it is it easy?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. It's not easy, that's the best way to put it. You just People ask all the time. You have to be someone that wants to go to the gym, wants to be outside, can control your alcohol, be comfortable with it because somebody's going to grab. You have to be comfortable with it until we were able to fix the issue. Just be level headed and work crazy hours, crazy, crazy hours. But you know you only work like four or five days a week, four days really, actually, you don't even work that much because nobody really gets every day. So three days a week and you probably make Make some decent money. We're going to go all into the business.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is owning. I'll end with this and I probably won't end with this, but is owning lived up to your expectations?
Speaker 2:No, no, I've no, it's actually. I was warned this but I didn't believe it. But it's actually caused relationship issues with people.
Speaker 3:Explain.
Speaker 2:Uh, people don't realize that I'm part owner. They just think I'm owner so I can just do whatever the hell I want and I can't. We have a team. So if one of my team members says, nah, I don't want this, they don't understand that I'm not going against the team, regardless of who you are, even if I am going against the team. I have three partners. So if two of my partners are like, ah, we don't like this one, then that's what it is. And people don't understand that at all.
Speaker 3:We found that a lot of folks have their energy has changed towards you.
Speaker 2:No, not inside the building.
Speaker 1:Not inside the building.
Speaker 2:Outside. What do you mean? The people I actually care about. There's been a few people there that have changed.
Speaker 1:I'm just like ah, you know that kind of sucks.
Speaker 2:But for the most part, the people I actually talked to on a daily basis were still the same, ain't really?
Speaker 3:changed. But you feel like the energy on the outside has changed, from people oh yeah, it's coming in.
Speaker 2:Like if they're not talking to me every day. Oh yeah, that energy is way different.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. They think they just think I can do whatever the hell I want. Yeah, it's not like that. Do people think you've changed at all?
Speaker 3:since you've gotten into this position.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard it a couple of times, Really, yeah, they tell them like what is it? They're like oh, just your energy. You have different energy around you.
Speaker 3:I don't know you feel like you're the same person that you were before stepping into this position.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I still wait in line to get in my own club. Yeah, you do it. Yeah, nothing changed.
Speaker 3:I sit there behind him like bro. Just lift the rope up, bro, regular human.
Speaker 2:Come on man.
Speaker 3:Just lift the guy there rope up, bro, ain't anything changed?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I cut people off, probably a little easier.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's probably about it, because you don't want that's not even the owner thing. I think it's just growing. You want to just deal with people that you bring you down or just have negative energy towards you. It's just cut it off, makes life easier, yeah.
Speaker 3:You've always been a chill cat, always been chill. How have you gotten to like you don't see? I've only seen you mad on the basketball court. I don't think I've even seen you mad in meetings. I've seen you mad in meetings, but it's really just the basketball court where you want to fight and square up with everybody. How do you maintain your calmness? How do you maintain that positive energy? Every time I see you, you're like, oh, it's a happy day. It's like you're kind of like, leave it to beaver's dad.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying? Leave it to beaver's dad.
Speaker 3:You know you're just. How do you maintain that positive energy? I have traveled quite a bit, yeah.
Speaker 2:And when you see how other people live, there's really nothing for us to complain about.
Speaker 1:Man there's more to it.
Speaker 2:You know, my godly man.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you, you realize, like not to put your business out here. We're in a very nice apartment right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We really don't have like we. Oh man, I'm broke. I'm going to go downstairs, go give me a little surprise. You know, like there's a lot of people who are like I'm broke.
Speaker 1:I don't know about to eat, yeah for sure that ain't.
Speaker 2:That ain't us, we ain't nowhere near. It's not even just that we ain't got no kids. That's actually a stress for me not having kids, but that added stress I mean you brought it up You're looking to have kids this year, man. By the end of 2024, somebody going to be pregnant. Can you look at the camera? Oh, somebody going to be pregnant. For sure this might, might be 2024. Somebody's pregnant. I'm going to beat you.
Speaker 3:Careful, Careful. I plan on, you know I plan on doing that in February. I like to have a Christmas kid you know what I'm saying? Valentine's, okay, christmas, kid man, you know so listen, you have a son name picked out Giovanni, not bad.
Speaker 2:Be careful, rich Nick's name, bro, because when it's not, it's not Christmas. When people get people pregnant on Valentine's, those are Scorpios.
Speaker 1:And score.
Speaker 2:Those are the nastiest humans on this earth. Oh, it is. It's. Trust me, you do not.
Speaker 3:So it's I got to do it in March. Yeah March, yeah March.
Speaker 2:Can I say, can I say, like, how you feel, how you feeling in life, yeah, You're in love, so when? You're in love. You have daughters.
Speaker 3:Oh, so you saying I should just Don't have a score, no more, just because I, because I want to have a son, that's what I know. Hey, girl, get the fuck out of my face, but before you go, let's have some sex. You know, okay, I got you.
Speaker 2:Okay, make love. You got to be aggressive. Do what my dad.
Speaker 3:Did you know what I'm saying? Have sex, leave. Never hear from him again, oh my God. And then you know, you end up. You know, oh my God, oh man. Good luck to your 49ers this year, man.
Speaker 2:Listen if the Niners win. I hope you put this podcast up before this. If the night, I'll do it for sure, if the night is when this Super Bowl, you have to come to the club, Cause we'll move in with Spider-Man. Spider-man, save everyone. They carried them out on top. Yes, that's going to be everyone that wants to celebrate with. We're all getting carried out that day. It is going to be a monumental time and it's going to be necessary. You didn't celebrate like you should have on the chiefs one.
Speaker 3:I don't have any friends to celebrate. You know, down here I don't have any chiefs friends to celebrate. I don't drink, and so it was like all I could do is eat vegan cookies and scream and shout. After that, you know, put up a post. You know, that was pretty much about it. You know what you, if you eat cookies, hey, they're good. You know you're a. Oh yeah, you got. I don't give a fuck, that's my shit. You got eat sit play going on. What is eat sit play? Oh shit, can I not talk?
Speaker 2:I don't give. Actually, you know what eats. It play is a. It's me and a friend of mine. We're just traveling around Arizona. Um, we're traveling around Arizona, arizona, trying food, trying new alcoholic places, special events Um, foodie, yeah it's a foodie. It's a foodie page, but it's going to be more than that. We're just putting out just dope events going on in Arizona. That's cool. It's multiple people do it.
Speaker 3:There's some of the places you've been already. I know you've been to a few.
Speaker 2:You know I've been to a few huh. Thanks but I put the friend Um, we went to a place called collar, not call it. Oh, we did go to collar. Yeah, Uh, payla, payla, downtown pyro. Um, I forgot the little uh, come, come Bora. Um, bitter and twisted, uh, easy 88. And that's it so far.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right, can you tell the audience when you think the what was this, when you think, uh, well seasoned, we'll be open, right, and then I want to go ahead and drop them your information where they can find you and your social media is and stuff like that and any added information you want to drop real quick.
Speaker 2:Well, see, it should be open within the next, to either be this Sunday or next Saturday, which is I don't know the date in my head right now 11, 12, 13, 14, the 14th or the 24th, 20th on that well season menu.
Speaker 3:What's one of your things you look forward to people trying? Y'all got a crazy menu that I think our magazine bowls. That's. That's the thing I want, just a straight magazine, she's, you know you can do the traditional magazine she's.
Speaker 2:they got the things like a surf and turf where he gets surf. A turf, a surf turf. It's just steak it, uh, like shrimp. Okay yeah, Surf, I think, is. I think surf is like.
Speaker 3:Oh, I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, surf or turf. Okay, so it's got shrimp and what else in there, like some steak.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, that's dope. So the but the cheese balls, we got bacon ones. This should be true, pretty legit.
Speaker 3:I mean I got like a lamb chop joint up in that joint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we got some lamb chops. Yeah, it's going to be that kind of food in Scottsdale is going to be interesting.
Speaker 3:I'm not yeah, and what are the days you're going to be open?
Speaker 2:Right now. First starting off is going to be Thursday through Sunday. Oh we got a side bowls in there too, and that's during the day, and that's what that is also open Thursday through Sunday. Now he's going to. He's going to be open probably Tuesday. There's a Tuesday through Sunday. Oh nice, yeah, so people can always go. I'm in there and get a side bowls.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what's up. Who would you set up for that, Did you? Oh wait, did you? Did you set up the hamburgers?
Speaker 2:Uh no, we don't know what's going on with that.
Speaker 3:Okay All right, all right, yeah, but who would you set up with the ice? I e bowls.
Speaker 2:His name is Devin. Um, his company is called Woo. That's terrible. Very, very divine is the one that's that we already go to. Okay, um, I don't know, I don't even know what it's called. Yeah, this sounds terrible.
Speaker 1:Can I look at it?
Speaker 3:right now, of course I'm going to look at it.
Speaker 2:You look it up, man, you don't have to, you don't have to smoke, that I'm not smoking.
Speaker 3:Nothing, Okay, this this day in you. You are honest man, you know what I'm saying you and I are honest man. Oh, very very best. Okay, very, very best, okay, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:I was close.
Speaker 3:That's cool, man. You got the ice ice e bowls and you expected to be, if it's not this Sunday, next Sunday next Saturday next Saturday, I'm sorry about that. That's the grand opening that you're going to do. Um, you want to drop the information? Where can they get you on Instagram?
Speaker 2:Debian GQ Jones pretty much everywhere Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you think you think you're a movie connoisseur. You're not. You think you're a TV show connoisseur, you're not. All right, when can they find you? Is it anywhere else? They can find you Twitter.
Speaker 2:Can we test that out?
Speaker 3:I don't know, but Name, name, name, your top three shows.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's changed. Uh, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and Stranger Things got me now why Breaking Bad? It's the only TV show I've ever watched the word there's less than one bad episode. Okay, Okay, Uh, Sons of Anarchy is just different. It's not something that most black people watch, Um, but it has every emotion. Anything that you want to think of in a TV show. It has. And it's not about just just drugs. Got you? Stranger Things is self-explanatory. Yeah, I'm a nerd. I'm a nerd. A soundtrack to the to the TV shows.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Acting the villains.
Speaker 3:Talk to him. Talk to him, you're not done. There you go. You said you're not done.
Speaker 2:You're saying kids grow up to. It's just you, you, you. It's fan-fucking-tastic.
Speaker 3:There you go. That was not my childhood as a kid, but all right. So then your top three movies. It's frosty in this bitch now, ain't it? Oh? I'm good this yeah, it's cold, it's cold, it's cold, it's cold yeah it's cold Um top three movies.
Speaker 2:Mine is corny, though, brett. My top three movies All right. Oh, shade, don't clown me here. It's probably Independence Day, um, love and Basketball and uh, I gotta throw something at least that got some some stank on it. Uh, poetic justice. I don't know, I don't know Brett, I don't know about, I don't know, I don't have a. Uh, oh, I'm so sorry. The Matrix the Matrix is my third. No, I forgot about Matrix, matrix, I, I get it. It takes over. It takes over my life All the movies you named are classic movies.
Speaker 2:I'm not mad at them, I just, you know when I think of something that has stuck with me for sure the Matrix, love and Basketball, because I'm a cake and uh, yeah, independence Day was my. That was my shit growing up.
Speaker 3:Give me an off the wall movie. Give me something that people wouldn't expect you to like, that you like Needle in it Needle in the Time Stack.
Speaker 2:He's never even heard man. You come right out of a comic book. Check it out. Check it out Needle in a Time. Stack. If you, if you got a date night, you want to hang out with your lady Needle in a Time Stack is on Amazon Prime. Really Yep, and you liked it.
Speaker 3:I enjoyed it bro, name me a TV show that you know people would be unexpected that you like Banshee. Oh yeah, it was. That was uh, um, not Netflix Cinemax, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a little HBO Max now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hbo Max or just Max, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, banshee, banshee. Y'all enjoy Banshee. It's incredible.
Speaker 3:You think so, yeah, yeah, it's not on. No more, though. So it's not, it's not two.
Speaker 2:It had like seven, six seasons, six seasons. Oh, okay, that's a nice run.
Speaker 3:I'll give it to you. That's a nice run, I always think. I always think shows should, should, tap out after five. Actually, team team Wolf, you like team Wolf? I did. Yeah, team Wolf. Smile, I like that type of shit, though you know what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying People wouldn't know that I was watching.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they wouldn't know they they, they, they was a power guy. You know what I'm saying. They see you as a ghost guy. You know Medea guy. You know what I'm saying. They don't really see.
Speaker 2:Medea. That was quite disrespectful as my brother. It doesn't roll with Medea bro.
Speaker 3:It doesn't roll. I mean, I want to say we've been, yeah, we've been chatting, Uh, anything else you want to add? Man, that's been fantastic.
Speaker 1:I do have a chance to know you Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, I just said it.
Speaker 3:What'd you?
Speaker 2:say I do, that's my type, that's all.
Speaker 3:So let's just do this, okay, all right. Okay, how did you land on the? Uh, how can I put the the the love for you? Hey, listen, come on, you ready. Yeah, fresh Gonna be proud of you for this one Cause he gonna, he, gonna, light it up. How'd you land on the love for Asian women? Ladies and gentlemen, I really appreciate y'all listening to uh, seize the Blue Cloud. I am Thaddeus Shade. I want my special guest, davey, I GQ Gones, gq Gones, and I appreciate y'all for listening. Man, thank you, brother, for coming through. I saved you a ton of daggers and this is, uh, that's it. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.