DINNER PARTY | Episode 1

foreign welcome to the first ever edition of dinner party I am your host Travis chapel and tonight we're bringing in five world-class guests for an evening of fun entertainment drinks games and hard hitting questions you are not going to want to miss out on a single second so without further Ado let's meet tonight's guests hi I'm John D Dominico I'm an Emmy nominated award-winning actor writer comedian I'm best known for my Donald Trump impersonation on Howard Stern Ken O'Brien Chelsea Handler even Jimmy Kimmel I'm excited about being here tonight [Music] television producer and film director and the number one best-selling author of the three-minute rule how to say less and get more out of each pitch and presentation [Music] Steve Sims I am the author of blue fishing and go for stupid the art of achieving ridiculous goals and Forbes magazine called me the real life Wizard of Oz hey I'm Chris Van Fleet four-time Emmy award-winning TV host Entertainment reporter I have a podcast called Insight with Chris Van Fleet where we talked to some of the biggest stars on the planet and I've interviewed The Rock 10 times not that I'm counting or anything hi my name is John Gafford I am the founder of the simply group it's a real estate conglomerate I'm also the host of the power Move podcast and before we get too far into this I believe Travis left an envelope with eight dollars for me somewhere eight dollars [Music] welcome to the first ever edition of dinner party this this first segment is called ice breakers this is just letting everybody in the audience get to know who is here at the dinner party likely what will happen is somebody will see that you're here and they follow you but then they don't know Chris or they don't know Brandt or they don't know John or they don't know the other John and same for everybody here so we're gonna go through and ask some initial questions we've already kind of been through some intros if something you know stands out to you feel free to have a follow-up for that person but I'm gonna go ahead and go down the line all right John D Domenico it's two Johns a little confusing though all direct okay John D Domenico first time you realized you were good at Impressions when I was five years old doing it for my neighbors on the Stoops in Ambler Pennsylvania and they were laughing they actually laughing they were actually laughing at a five-year-old kid yeah imagine a five-year-old kid in front a bunch of adults smoking cigarettes since 1969 I'm like now right here on our shoe really big show The Fabulous garbacho brothers and also we have for Brooklyn Girl Scout Troops 625 girls stand up and show us your cookies and they burst into laughter and I was like this is it this is all I want to do it all right Brandt you produced a documentary about Facebook yeah back in the day what year was that that was 2016. okay so still when social media was kind of on the rise pre-tick-tock pre a lot of the other pretty ones what freaked you out the most about Facebook I think it was the idea that it would expose who I really was like I had a very specific Persona and being a Hollywood producer I got to be able to craft that and it was very important to me and Facebook felt like the wild west that everything about me would be on there and I would be able to control it did you scared the crap out of me did you actively not jump onto the platform for a while yeah I actually liked being the person that was like I'm not on Facebook I know what I'm doing like it became a little bit of my shtick right like I got to be it was a good conversation piece and I was too cool too cool for all that kind of stuff what year did you crack well what happened was I did the movie to explore Facebook and I actually set out to do a Michael Moore expose like I'm gonna expose how terrible it is yeah and show my son why I didn't want him on it but every time I came up with something that I hated about Facebook like all Facebook could cost you your job you know because you'll say something stupid well it turns out Facebook is the number one job recruiting site in the world and it was like oh well it could cost you your marriage and your relationship well it's like it's the number one dating site in the world people my cousin's actually met on Facebook and so as I went through I realized like maybe the problem isn't Facebook maybe the problem was me and the and the movie sort of turned into that and what I did is I created this Alter Ego it's like well if I if I was on Facebook why would I be me I'd be the coolest person in the world so I made up Steve Steele The Man of Mystery I'm gonna create this whole Persona with him and he had all these great pictures that I photoshopped and all around the world doing all this crazy stuff and he got very popular and people loved him and they kept sending him messages and my production team started to notice that I was on Facebook quite a bit as Steve Steele doing a lot of stuff so that's when I sort of realized it's like oh yeah maybe the reason I was staying away from it because I knew I would be like sucked into it into the black hole Vortex yeah so I became I was Steve Steele for a long time until finally I was like okay I guess I could let you know it wasn't a surprise love it Chris Van Vliet you have interviewed when I tell people when I tell we've talked about partnering together on you know helping people start to interview shows and every time I set it up I'm like so I've interviewed all of the business people in the business world and I go Chris has interviewed literally everybody else and it's almost not even a joke at that point you've interviewed The Rock Margot Robbie Steven Spielberg like the top names in the entire world who intimidated you the most oh wow Samuel L Jackson is so intimidated really because you ask him a question and then he just kind of stares at you for like maybe it's a second or two but it feels like an hour so you ask him a question and it could be the most simple question in the world and he'll just kind of stare at you like just like the character and then he'll go and you're like oh my God never doing another interview this guy again anyway well it's a really good question and you're like oh my god oh so it's the fact that he's like staring this hole through you the whole time you think you really screwed up right and that's just who he is and I think that I think there's like a little bit of him that like kind of like plays on the fact that like he knows he's Samuel L Jackson yeah he knows he's an intimidating figure and he just plays it up a little bit John Gafford you were a contestant on The Apprentice fired on live television by our 45th president how did you land The Apprentice oh how did I get that gig um bullshitted like a mother trucker to be honest with you that's where it started um my sister called me and basically said go try out for the Apprentice with me and I said I have no interest in doing reality television you were you were a business owner at the time I was a business owner at the time and she called me and said go let's go try out and I didn't want to go and then we went and you went to the open call and then they at the end of the table they said we want to talk to you again and then it just kept calling me and you know the creative you know the competitive juices kicked in if you will and they narrowed us down to 50 people and they took us to they took the top 50 of of I guess it was two million people tried out for that season I know it's a weird odd number but I guess that's what it was but they took us to the Embassy Suites in in Santa Monica it was the top 50 and they didn't let you talk to each other so everybody had their own room they put you through a week of like IQ tests and then interviews with psychologists interviews these people and you would see the room start to dwindle because the only time you'd be around they locked you in your room and you would go to the dinner and lunch and breakfast and there'd be one person at every table and you're just looking around everybody else right and you start to notice yesterday there was more people here there's less people so it gets to the end of the week and um Mark Burnett who was a producer comes in and it was all the NBC brass was there and so your your Handler they call themselves fluffers comes down and goes okay we're going upstairs to talk to everybody they want to interview it's fine so I walk upstairs suited and booted ready to go walk in the room big double doors and top floor all the NBC brass is there brunette sitting there he's eating eating M M's how many people probably 15 to 20 in the room and like a 15 20 on one on one yeah and he's sitting and he's sitting in the middle of all of them and I walk in how you doing Mr my name is John Gafford I stick my hand out and he's eating M M's and he just looks at my hand and just puts an m m in my hand right and then proceeds to we do like an interview thing and it did not go well because the problem was I was I'm there I was trying to get a job so here I am touting all of my genius and all of the Great accomplishments that I had and this guy wants to tell me that well according to this we talked to your best friend Rick Wells and he says your girlfriend's about to dump you that's what he wants to talk about so it just did it went poorly so I go downstairs I'm like well that was that was a good run start packing my stuff up because I figure I'm one of the next casualties and then about an hour and a half later the fluffer guy comes down and goes hey they want to see you again I go all right hang on a second I go if I'm going again I'm going how I want to go give me a minute and I go to the mini bar open the mini bar wrap it open walk upstairs we get to the doors and I kick them as hard as I can band doors slam open and everybody in the room just jumps and I walk in I look at Mark Burnett and I said before you say one more [ __ ] thing to me let me tell you why you shouldn't we should put me on your little television show I said you invest in me you get back a hundred times what you invest and I pulled a bag of M M's and I'd stolen out of the mini bar I threw him on his [ __ ] face I said thanks for the m m and I walked out and that's how I got on The Apprentice the fluffer guy goes amazing that's awesome that's all I got on Brandt can you give us some some uh you know color coding here for like behind the scenes what are people looking for well when you're in a reality TV room like we touched on something really important like he wanted to go get the job nobody in that room cared about his job application skill whatsoever it's like hey we have a structure for a TV show but I need crazy stuff to happen every week to go to the next week and that's what people don't understand about TV is like one episode doesn't work you need something to happen every episode that people need to come back the next week that's really hard to do so when you're looking for characters you're looking for Flaws in the general system that they can exploit and where is the fly in the ointment where is the sort of nitroglycerin that we can shake up and they're not looking just at John they're looking at the foil that they met three days ago that they know if they put those two in the room it'll be like oh that's going to be magic right and so you could have everything that they want but if they don't have a foil for you or other pieces it makes it more difficult right same thing with the Bachelor and The Bachelorette like casting that show is yeah it's like who's pretty and who's gonna be compatible but it's like who's not going to be compatible like if they don't have those story lines and surprise surprise every season is the exact same right same storyline because those storylines no it's the craziest season yet yeah but it's like those storylines are the same and so proper is it the same in movies they're in sames in drama it's the same as you know La law that's the same on every show has the same story lines and reality do they use the heroes Journey on The Bachelor is that the same is that the title path they usually use them it's like who's the one and and what a lot of people just don't understand is how much is constructed after the fact right like oh god you watch the show and you're like I I don't think I said any of that it's like well you said those words in some in some order somewhere that night when I got when I got fired from that show they showed me my episode in the NBC press secretary's office before it aired I picked my chair up and threw it in the wall you're like what is this I'm like what the f what the what was that yeah and I was like they're like and I gotta tell you and I tell you that was that was the problem with with that particular show when I was on it that was the problem was the first season of that show I thought was magic yeah right because it was like because it was like dude it was like it was like a horse race where you everybody had favorite horses and the horses ran and that was it and then season two came along and that Omarosa chick showed up and when Trump fired everybody in America hated that woman so much that when Trump fired her American went yay Trump and all of a sudden Trump was like hmm if they hate the person I fire then I'm magic and so every subsequent season was they had to vilnify every single person that that got clipped and that's what that's why survivor's still on the air and that's not well I agree it's just so hard because what they don't understand is like it's not a reality tell you it's not a documentary we're not trying to document what happened we are creating entertainment that's it so it's like yeah I need you to act the way you act and do what happens in the real moment but then the story producers and the editors and the producers go back there and be like how do we create a narrative storyline it's like if you didn't say exactly what I want that's fine because you'll say words that I can we call it Franken biting or we chop them up and move them into different areas so I can make you say anything I want and that's what we need to do not because I'm against you or against you or for you it's like I need to make this as compelling as possible all right Steve Sims okay so you it's it's interesting because everybody here has had a lot of run-ins with a lot of really really high level people and yours is very interesting because it's not necessarily it is the A-list celebrity crowd a little bit but you have done business with heads of state and presidents of countries and things like that what were some of maybe the weirdest requests that you got in your concierge business from these types of people with this type of money I'm a member one guy that was trying to get this deal with another guy in New York and I'm very glad this is not being recorded and he um he knew that the other guy literally was addicted to porn so he got this yacht we we handled all the bookings and everything he got this yacht in Miami and had probably about 30 of at the time the top porn stars in the industry on this boat and this guy was down there at a family reunion or something and was like Hey I I if he contacts this guy and he's like hey I wanted to talk to you about business come and join me on my yacht and he joined them on this with all of these guys and he got the deal [Music] we had some client ask us that they wanted a dining experience in Florence and one of one of the trademarks of me and my company was the and it was actually the book you know shallow plug for the book I'd just done a new book called go for stupid and that used to be the motto 15 years ago so people would come to us and go hey I want to I want two front load tickets to The Journey concert you know that new Revival concert we'll be like okay how can we make this stupid and we'd come up with a stupid idea and we'd end up putting them on stage and they would sing three Tunes with the band and we did this so we had this guy one of our one of our one of the big things that got us out there was uh we have this client that wanted a dining experience in Florence to show how connected and Powerful he was to his fiancee and his mother and father-in-law so um he wanted a dining experience in Florence and it's you kind of trip over good food in Florence so that wasn't too [ __ ] hard so we wanted to see how far we could take it um and we always start at the top fail and work our way down yeah but we didn't fail on this time and we ended up getting the Academia the Galleria Museum that houses Michelangelo's David set up a table of six at the feet of David So at nine o'clock at night he walks into his own museum string quartet Tuscan Chef makes this beautiful meal and then when he gets to the main course I said to him I've got a local Entertainer that wants a seven age while you eat your pasta is that okay I'd have been [ __ ] if he'd have said no but he turned around he said yeah that's fine Steve so I bought in Andrea Bocelli to 7am join his pastor and that was that was one of the things that caught a lot of attention and we got well known for doing stupid [ __ ] so stupid [ __ ] that's the next book how impressed were the girls how impressed were the girls go with this but the funny thing was it's a strong movement so yeah exactly so is anyone has anyone been to the Academia the Galleria so the downstairs is where there's these massive great blocks where Michelangelo would practice on a marble floor and then at the end of the corridor is David so it's all marble on a marble floor not the best Acoustics in the planet so when I actually walked out holding on to Andrea Bocelli to guide him to his position and his son was on the piano this the the future wife dropped her fork and this thing freaking lasted for about an hour it just seemed to go over again really annoying but the mother and father-in-law just glided bearing in mind she was Miss Colombia so they never had a lot of money now they're with this guy and that just kind of like kind of mind like this all the time just the fact that they were riding around in like fancy cars just did it and now they're having photographs on Andrea Bocelli say it was a cultural shock was an understatement and I'm glad this isn't being recorded and I don't care now man but when Andrea and uh well Veronica actually said yeah we do it um we're gonna do six Tunes you know what do you want you know what had to be she said um you know what do you want I thought well I have I have two options I either I either asked a client what he wants you know Andrea to sing or I found another misses and pick our favorite six hits and just do it for us so that's what we did so I founded my wife and I went what's your favorite sex then you know and we just we got these chins and uh we did it do you have kids I have three do you want them well I'm about to I'm about to be a father for the first time congratulations yeah thank you do you have money now I just want you to remember this moment what oh geez yeah wait if you guys are both here who's looking after your kids so that's a good question they're going Lord of the Flies yeah it doesn't matter they're gonna grow up and hate you I I had a moment where so I interviewed the rock for Black Adam like 10 times right now and we had just found out that we were having the baby and we hadn't even really announced this to a lot of people and I said what a moment it would be if I could get parenting advice from The Rock and I said to my now wife I said to Rachel I said would you be okay if I if I told the rock that we were having a baby before we told our parents and she's like yeah of course yeah absolutely another reason another reason to marry this woman she got her priorities straight I said are you sure she's like yeah like we can hold that clip until like we announced her I said of course we can and it ended up being this like Mom we're pregnant I don't want to play music right on top of each other it ended up being a great moment yeah it ended up being a great moment that went viral and like like I got teared up because I hadn't really said this out loud like I'm gonna be a father for the first time and start tearing up and The Rock's like hey man against this big hug gives me all this great advice and uh I then I left there and I was like I can't believe I can't believe that I was able to get away with this I didn't tell my parents till like six weeks later it was a great authentic manufactured moment yeah is authentically manufactured says the king of reality television yes who manufactured it authentic moment that's the way life is what can you guys give me some uh some dad advice no great great no no we've been breeding kids for what millions of years still when no one has a [ __ ] idea what's going on listen the only thing I would say is that of all the things I did wrong with the kids but the the big one is that I I became as invested in my own joy in being good at parenting and providing experiences as I was at the office so I used to match that intensity like if you think about what your day-to-day life is it's not fun like do you like sitting on a computer do you like talking on the phone no you like the results that come from that you like the victory you like setting up a Target knocking it down you like to keep score those are what particularly men like in the office environment we like to win we like to feel like we have something to achieve and a lot of times we only feel that at the office and our home life becomes sort of a break from that and that's why as you get older and more successful it's harder to stay at home easier to stay in the office all your life and so what I was able to do was really focus on if I was going to if it was a parenting contest this weekend who had the most fun with their kids like how would I feel like I won that weekend right and so I made it a like a contest and see how many experiences I could do with the kids how I could make you know interesting memories with them and I started getting that pattern and it became sort of where we're at and so like my daughter is going to go on this year-long trip around the world with me at yes it's crazy 52 countries 52 weeks that's unbelievable and I think it's just because that's 20 24 we leave it yeah yeah so that's why I would say like that's just who you are though that's who you are of like how can I one up like I think it's like you got to make it you gotta do it what you naturally want to do which is almost make it a contest you want to make it something that you can win and do well at you want to be recognized even if it's just yourself for being great and that's I think in parenting if you're just doing it to get by it becomes difficult and it's a strain and it's extra if you do it as like yeah if you do it as a like almost like a contest and I used to do when I take the kids to the beach my wife hates the sand we go to the beach and I have three kids under five years old and I'd be like if Jeff Probst from subscribers yeah I heard you tell this story I guess when I was researching I heard you tell this sorry Mike he said yeah like if he popped out and was like Brad four hours here's the contest four hours in the pan of the beach you got to get them fed you gotta get them clean you gotta get back home everybody happy every one of us would be like oh yeah I'm to crush this right yeah but yet you don't you don't create the contest mentality in your mind usually but when you start learning to do that more often you can sort of make that across all things and I found parenting for me was pretty good at that so I have a question because your kids are a little older than mine yeah like you want to get a little forward like my biggest fear in life being somebody that I would consider successful and and we we you know we're blessed in the fact that a lot of the things that we've done in life have paid off in in with with money and we can do kind of whatever we want to do and my biggest fear in life is always the quote that tough times raise great men and soft times raise soft men and and that's my biggest fear so you're a little further along because like that's only like when my kid I'll never forget my son was like six he had an opinion on airlines like we flew Southwest somewhere and he looked at me at six years old it was like is Delta not fly there like why are we taking the bus at six years and it's got it here's the thing my kids are my kids just straight A students they're they're athletes they're they're great kids they're great kids but my point is it still scares the [ __ ] out of me and it should yeah but I will say this my son did we had that moment too when he was saying he wanted to be a teacher and I think it was 15 or 16 and my wife was trying to we were in our bedroom we're in bed and chatting with him and my wife said sort of like you know cautious well Kayla you got to look at what your lifestyle what you want to live like and you know teachers they don't make a lot of money but that might be something you want to think about for the future and he goes like this he goes well I don't need all this wow I had the same exact experience I had the same exact experience because I was talking to my son who said I the same thing I said well buddy because he was going to be an architect and I said well let's look at starting you know let's look at what that pays you're going to be a grunt working a big firm you're not going to start building skyscrapers that's not how life works and we kind of broke it down he's like and I said to him I go well you want a house you need this and it started showing the numbers the same thing and he goes well I need a house like this that's right so he said and I was like that's not the way I grew up you know yeah me neither and he said to me when we were in the car we're driving the car and he said so we were talking about something he goes well I'm never going to be as successful as you so what does it really matter and as a dad you're just like I don't know what I've done you do make the trade-off right you make the trade-off for you know my son is kind and he's generous and he's wonderful and we have an amazing relationship so I didn't I woke up every day trying to make this kid happy my parents did not wake up every day trying to make my so like you trade that off yeah but I will say this he went into college to be a philosophy major because he wanted to be a professor of philosophy which is like my wife and I were like okay well we lost this one but like you know we'll get the next one we were just like hey we got this one slipped away but I will say this over the last year as he's gotten older and more things of real life have started to creep in now he's on an entrepreneurial bed I love that because he's like he's seen the other side he's like yeah I want to make a bunch of money now like I need to do this so he's all now he's doing all this entrepreneurial stuff the philosophy thing is like that might be a hobby but is he aware of like Ryan holiday someone like that who's taken the philosophy thing 11 best-selling books and courses and has actually taken that he was definitely in that mindset yeah I was just like hey that's the cost of what we as parents at this age and this generation are creating we aren't creating a lot of Steve Jobs I don't feel like that right my kids are never going to do that they're not going to be Elon Musk and I think the world still needs those people who will sacrifice everything in their lives just to get ahead just to create the next thing just to find something great in the world like my kids I don't think have that drive and I think it's because we didn't and so let's force that into them how many people at this table were born into money how many of these people have events like this or go to entrepreneurial events or go to master every single one of us start taking your kids to all of these kind of events because you just look at this table imagine if any child could be sat at this table communicating with all these guys with just those little pieces of information the Nuggets that we spoke out on there we could sell that for 10 grand worth of coaching so do try and get your kids to go to this many events do you think the entrepreneurial world will advance over the next years or decline is it going to be easier for the Next Generation I feel like there's a yeah there's a lot more entrepreneurs now yeah like this this wasn't even something it was talked about when I was in school friend of mine in the 90s it was a bad word if you were an entrepreneur in the 90s you were self-employed yeah you couldn't get a job you were selling stolen audio out the back of the car yeah it's like with everything else there's 25 000 comedians now at a certain point in time there was maybe a thousand in the entire United States working comics and now everyone's a comedian because of social media there's so many entrepreneurs there's so many people doing all of this stuff there's so many people who are Peak performers and will train you to be a peak performer it's it's really it's like exponential the barrier of Entry is certainly a lot I'm gonna correct we talked about that today much lower I don't think there's more entrepreneurs I think there's more entrepreneurs I think people look at people and again we spoke about it earlier the awareness levels much higher every single one of us is laid in bed not being able to worrying about paying the bill on Friday every single one of us right so they see the other side they see the glory they see the Accolade they see you being able to put a table together like this and they go I want some of that and they they think they can do it until they suddenly realize they can't do [ __ ] but the side gigs when I was 15 years old was mowing the grass or shoveling the snow or selling grass or snow now now the side business is like you could start a Shopify store or you could uh have a podcast so many more so many more I hosted an nft event in New York and we had a panel of five kids all under 13 who were all making money online one had made over one million dollars in nfts wow I was I I was like and these kids are smart and they're articulate and they understand the business they're in and they understand nfts and they understand and I was just blown away I'm like kid you know I'm I'm a little probably older than everybody I was just amazed by where they're at now in their lives because I I couldn't there's no equivalent of that when I was a kid I'm 60 years old so it's you know he's like when I was 10 was any was any kid on the cover of a magazine because they invented something like it just wasn't happening yeah but I can see Mo now they can jump on it yeah the exposure is going to be there when your child like I remember I've got three kids my youngest one was grown on a touchpad you know from from you know my own we didn't have touch pads we had to push the bloody dials or even some of us had a you know ring the whole bloody number so things Advanced think technology opportunities come I think opportunities are going to grow and the whole mindset of you get a job you work the entire job you get a pension and you retire those days are dead yeah but we need those people but but I'll say them but I'll say 80 of the planet works for 20 I'll say this as well in 20 years when our kids are grown the most valuable skills will be the ability to connect with people on a one-on-one basis because these kids today are just right here they're all on their phones all day long and the amount of dopamine that that is jumping through their heads is eliminating the ability to grind through adversity or see obtain long-term goals in those skills people that can do that are going to be so few and far between in 20 years it's crazy so I would say and it's very difficult to do but try to limit screen time as much as you can and try to try to Foster an environment where physical personal connection is more important than anything else you know personal connection with people because that those are skills that will not exist in 20 years [Music] I thought it'd be kind of fun we have the number one Trump impersonator in the world sitting at the table right so um I want to know step by step somebody's watching this they don't know who you are they don't know who we are somebody's watching this step by step how do you do a good Trump impression well the way you do any impression is you figure out where the voice is being generated from in the body so you know Dr Phil was more like you're press you're pushing it out you know what I mean but it's in the back of your throat with someone like Trump you think about his throat placement because it's kind of a little bit Gravelly right and then you think about the Northeast nasality because the whole North I'm from Philly lived in New York he's very nasal then you think about the vocal production of the sound where it's coming from because he does something unusual he goes up and down like that and then when I was researching his voice I was thinking who else is from I think I'd mention this who else is from who else is from Queens New York well that's Christopher Walken wow Travis you know this dinner wow so I thought you've got that well the staccato is there and then I always I'm talking about Groucho Marx and some of you you probably you know probably everyone knows but Groucho talk later hello I must be going I came to say again I'd say I must be going so I was thinking about that sing song in there so if you wanted to Trump the best way to do it is oh and the Secret Sauce in any oppression any impersonation is what is that thing what is the secret sauce about them and Trump it's absolute confidence doesn't matter it can be on the Titanic it could be going down and said this is tremendous where the first ship that went down here did you know that the first one did you see what we did to that Iceberg we destroyed that Iceberg destroyed it absolutely ruined that ice cream terrible people the icebergs so think about you know whatever voice you're doing where it's coming from in them you know like is it is in the back the throat the front of the throat you know the enunciation it doesn't matter you know someone like Bill Clinton his voice he talks until his lungs are empty hey how you doing good to see you [Laughter] and he empties his lungs when he just keeps talking and talking and talking and talking he gets that vocal fry hey how you doing you know my favorite is since I was you know I always loved Colombo folks I hate to bother you oh is he had a little bit of New York in there when he talked he was a little confused I always I always thought that was like the best and the one eye wow wow look at that Mr Trump what do you think of dinner so far it's been absolutely fantastic I like my chicken fried which is okay but I don't like broccoli I don't like broccoli I don't like any vegetables actually if we can put this whole thing on a bun it would be fantastic you know we have great food at Maryland you hear a lot of different performance for you Travis as soon as you get a haircut and shave the beard off hey he was on the show did you know that no one talks about that he's embarrassed wow oh that's great um Chris uh I want to finish my food here so your host you ask a lot of questions oh one chance to get to know everybody this evening go around the table ask everybody a question about the back story that you know about them now too oh my gosh we talked about so many great things off camera too well when we rolled up here we couldn't help but notice your Maserati in the parking lot yeah uh what's the story behind that honestly people look at it it's it's it was a great hedge at the time this is when inflation was really starting to go hyper like crazy so I was trying to dump as much money as I could out of bank accounts into assets I like it I thought would appreciate I um I invest in a private jet with a friend of mine so I owned a dassault Falcon 50 uh jet uh for a year I had it for one year put my money in made money on it we sold it a year later got out which was great but really I was just using all these really these really high-end assets like my car like the jet the kind of hedge inflation that was really the whole point of it and uh and the other car is worth more now today than it was when I bought it and hopefully knock on wood that will continue did you hear that kids planes and exotic cars are assets get in early whatever you heard right the right no no there's an answer to that because by the way also race horses right the planes are right the planes are right up here okay they have to understand when you buy a private jet right if you go buy a private jet today it's not like you buy a private jet and you can fly it out of the jet you can just fly it off you can't you have to stabilize the plane by hiring Pilots by sending them to school to learn to fly that jet and then you put it in a charter business so when we bought it we bought a plane what we sold was a business that was operating a charter business so yes it was an asset that's the difference we bought we bought we bought a depreciating asset and sold a business yeah yeah that's what we did okay Steve with everything that you've done is there anything left on your bucket list now the funny thing is there never was um I always used to say that the business I was in was not the business I was in I didn't give a [ __ ] about flying around and doing all these things I just wanted to know how I could go from being a broke ass biker in East London to having money to be able to afford maseratives whenever I wanted so I did what I did to have conversations with these affluent people now I would like to just continue to do what I do have meals like this but I'm probably one of the dullest people you've ever met I totally disagree with that that is a lie I mean that's what I was thinking I mean do those people at this table yes that I've ever met yeah all right Branch with everything that you've done what's the TV show that you pitched that you thought was an incredible idea third one and somehow they turned it down damn it that was in my question the one that missed a good one the problem is I have so many of them that it's hard to pick one it really is so I would say two big ones two big ones one was called the secret Bachelor which was you don't know you are the bachelor I've got a girl who wants to find a certain guy we pick you you think you're just auditioning for something else hidden camera and then we program her with everything that we know you like you like pro wrestling so she's got a pro wrestling magazine in her purse when you meet in the elevator and we stop the elevator you're stuck in the elevator like we orchestrate the whole thing and the idea was could we manufacture sort of love if we give her every piece of information about you and what you like can we do that right and so we taught a pilot it was spectacular spectacular it worked so well and fox didn't end up doing it which I thought was crazy and it bothers me to this day that that show is not on the air so John not only are you the number one Trump impersonator in the world it's tremendous don't do that again I appreciate the attempts I had to you've you've done it for Trump you've worked for Trump yeah give us your best Donald Trump Story the best Donald Trump story at least for me was it's not a TR it's not where I'm playing Trump I was playing Austin Powers I was co-hosting his his birthday in Atlantic City and uh we're backstage and I was going to do a bit with him where I pop out of a cake bring all these dancers up on stage it was just you know it was going to be a great night and they brought me into the Green Room a lot the band was there and all these people a lot of activity and somebody with a headset comes over and says hi John um Mr Trump will be in here in about 15 minutes when he gets in here we're gonna have the director go over everything with the cake and just when he comes in don't shake his hand okay and I was like okay baby it was already in Austin so I mean yeah baby no shaky shaky so it was fine and like five minutes walked by and then another PA came over and said did anyone talk to you yet Mr Trump will be here in about 10 minutes and when he gets here you'll go over everything but just do us a favor it's like can you shake his head and okay so now we're now like he's literally outside the door and you can sense like you the guy has Charisma and like you're literally sensing he's outside the door another PA comes over and says um uh Mr Trump will be in in one minute when he comes in the director and all of you are going to just go over the whole bit with the cake and the dancers but when he comes in just do me a favor I was like dude shake his hand and you're like yeah don't shake his hand he's not he's kind of a germaphobe I said I totally get it baby don't worry so then the door opens up there's a room full of people but he looks right at me in my Austin Powers blue suit and the teeth and the glasses and he looked I mean he goes right to me and I'm in like one of those couches like back room couches and I'm kind of sunk down on the couch when he comes over and just got a trip oh and he's standing over me and he's a big guy and his hand is right in my face yes his head is right in my face and I'm sitting there and this is like 99 2000 I forget what year it was but I'm sitting there I've been instructed by three people not to shake his hand it's here it's literally right here and everyone leans in like an old EF 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