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- riverside edit lisa — take 04 lisa dwoskin's stud: Hey guys, welcome back to Life Rescue TV with Lisa. Thank you all so much for joining. I have a special guest to introduce and what it is. But first, I want to remind all of you call in 754-222-4413. Let me know what you're going through, what you want to talk about, if you want to be a guest on my show. And after we're done with this beautiful podcast. Like it, share, comment, call us, and tell us what you thought about it. Okay. Everybody breathe in, beautiful positive energy. Exhale out. Negative. I'm gonna make David laugh. So we have the one, the only, the famous David Lee Robb, who's not the singer from Van Halen, but he's better. David and I have known each other for probably about 15 years. He's helped me with every single T V thing I had to do, special Olympics, charities. Anytime you need a sponsor, you need talent, you need anything, David is the man and he's gonna talk about that in a minute. So thank you, David. Welcome to Life Rescue. Peace, thank you for having me. Did you did you just wake up or what? No, I've been up. Yeah. You don't I was at the basketball game last night. Yeah. Yeah, it was an exhibition, but I was at the Heat game. They played Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nets. And how was it, good? I'm gonna turn you up. I don't I don't there. I don't I don't like how our our society's going with with sports now because you know, my friend came with me, he wanted to buy drinks for me, my my friends, and he pulled out cash. And they said, unfortunately, we don't take cash, we take credit on. Yeah. And I I don't understand 'cause it used to be cash is king. Now it's not king anymore. Yeah. I went now everything y like if you go to a Panther game, you have to buy one of their cards and put money on it on and use that to purchase food and drinks. Yeah. Yeah, I went to a game and I noticed they didn't take cash. That was weird. I know, that's strange. But you had fun at the game? No, I was good. I mean it was it was it was a listen Going to the game is fun, getting out is bad. Well, of course. A crowd. So what do you like more about down there? Yeah, they closed all the streets off. Why? What's going on? Just mm. They're building high rises, more high rises. Just what Miami needs, right? Yeah, more high rises. What do you like better? Basketball or football? Football. Are you gonna go to the game? yeah, I go to I I would like to go back to the dolphin games just to make fun of the dolphin fans. Because they suck. I know. You're so funny. Okay, tell us about your company. Nairo G Entertainment. Nairo G Entertainment. why do I always say that? AJ's gonna kill me. AJ's in the hospital right now getting major surgery. no, AJ, we send you love and prayers and light. Okay, tell us about your company. Near G Entertainment, we're a full blown production company with also representation artist management, marketing representation. celebrity athletes, musicians, actors, actresses. We also produce and direct anything from TV commercials to a movie to a documentary. last year we shot two TV commercials for the Super Bowl. One was with SoundCloud, the other one was for Toyota. so we shot that in Winwood. Well, Florida, which is, you know, Miami, Florida. So we were featured in Ocean Drive magazine. They gave us a full page spread. And also they put us in the next top wave of Miami. They put our company in there. Yeah, you guys are really doing well. And you know, I just came up with the perfect thing I want to talk about with you, David, because this show, Life Rescue, is a movement, a way of life for people to do what they want, to create what they want, manifest what they want. So I've known you a long time. What so when David and I were in our twenties, we weren't friends, but I heard of David Roth, the promoter. He was working like not with but Michael Capone. Everyone knew about him and if you grew up in Miami. Astro do you know who I just went out on the yacht with? He came to the house the other day? Who? Remember to remember Tommy Pooch? Yes, yes. Pizza. He was just here, he was just here. And he used to do the best Tuesday nights at the shore club if you remember. Yeah, all of those. So back in the day when we were in South Beach, Bash, Liquid, Groove Jet, Bed, Bang, amnesia. Okay, so South Beach was the hottest and you couldn't get in anywhere. So David, I think I met you at a party outside on Pine Tree, but it was like near Jamie's house, remember? Yeah. But that was a long time ago. Anyway, fast forward like 20 years later, I was doing something with LT and I got in touch with David and he put me in touch with a prime cigar location sponsors. You introduced me to Eric. So the question I have for you is this Did you always know that you wanted to do this in your life? And if so, how did you get to where you are? Because David's like has a Rolodex of every celebrity, every athlete, everyone. So and he's very humble and just gives away everything for free. Or at least he used to. So did you always know you wanted to do it, or did you manifest it or what? No, my there I had two other job opportunities I looked into that I was gonna go into the field of. One, I was I wanted to be a professional miniature golfer. And the other was a test pilot for a helicopter ejector seat. So I thought through it and said, Nah, I'm gonna go into the entertainment business. But you're funny. But now I how I got big into it, I went to school for music in Studio City, California. And that was back in the the hairband days, you know, like Motley Crue, Rat and Twisted Sister, yeah, yeah. Now when I lived in North Hollywood, which is San Fernando Valley, on my the second floor of my unit was Nikki Six of Motley Crew lived there. The first floor was Megadeth, the whole band. I had Steven Percy of Rat living on the same floor with me. Wow. So and on the weekends they all went to Vegas. They would drive there and they would invite me to get in the car with them. And I started networking from there. And then I lost my you know, back then in eighty nine they didn't have the technology today, like no everybody if you wanted a phone number, you took a little book with you and you wrote their name and phone number in. It's called a phone diary. And then I lost it. So when I lost it, I lost everything. All my contacts. Michael Jordan, everything. wow. So then I started back up in two nine eleven. So when nine eleven happened, I was at the Marriott Marquee in New York. Mm-hmm. And I was stranded there because you know the towers went down. You couldn't leave the city. So on the eighth floor of the hotel, that's the lobby bar. So Everyone was at the lobby bar drinking and watching the TV. We were watching the TV of the 9-11, you know, the aftermath and of the people being found, people about dead bodies, everything. And the last bottle of vodka left was called Vox, V O X. And I and it was on a lit-up pedestal. And I remember saying to the bartender, Vox be thy name. He pours me the Vox Vaca. And I drank it, I go, Wow, this is pretty smooth. And I took the bottle and I looked at the back of it and I copied the name of the company and where they're located. Now, fast forward two thousand three, I think it's at the Grand you know the Coconut Grove, there's a hotel on the bay. Yeah, I used to teach aerobics there. Well, what happened was Lee Dalberg. Lee Dalberg called me up. you know, he started his leather rock band line. He said, David, I'm doing a an event at the grands, overlooking the bay. And do you have a a liquor sponsor? I said, I don't know anyone. then I go, wait, I do know someone. I go, Fox vodka. So I call up Fox Vaca. I got their number. And I told them my story of because first they said you gotta go through a distributor. When is the event? I said in two days. They said it's too late in the game. Sorry. I go, can I just Tell you how I heard about you, and they said, sure, you got a two minutes. The two minutes turned into 20 minutes. And they transferred me to the marketing, they transferred me to the vice president. They overnight me three cases of Vox Vaca. Wow. And they also put me in the Vaca Tasting magazine, the story of Vox and how it was put on the map in Miami. Wow, I never heard that story from you. That's so cool. So it was like destiny that puts you on the path because you do a lot of sponsors with liquor, vodka. Yeah, I do. now now the thing that's unusual is to this day, the what really set me as aside from everyone else is when I I asked people, you know, can we get a vodka sponsor? When? two days. No, you're not gonna it's not gonna happen. No, you're not gonna happen. You can't do it. You can't do it. When they found out, word got around town I Lee Dalberg knows everyone. He's told everyone, Dave came through, he got me three cases of box. They said, How? He goes to companies then to ship it to him directly. Okay? Which you're not allowed to do that, you know that, right? It's illegal. No, I don't know. Unless you're unless you can order it online and you have to show proof you're twenty-one, yes. Uh-huh. But they didn't they didn't have that technology then where you clicked your twenty-one. So And actually to let you update, AJ and I we just did a contract with Art Basel. we're doing a show with Prism, P-R-I-Z-M. And we're gonna be producing the whole show with the DJ and everything. We also have a location now on four twenty Lincoln Road. We have five offices for Art Basel, the display Art and And everything's going smooth right now at this point. Yeah, you're growing and growing and growing. So What is your favorite part about what what before we talk about philanthropy, because that's the next thing I want to talk about. What's your favorite part about this job that you do? Is it meeting people, networking with people? Is it going to the parties, meeting the celebrities? Or or what is it? Let me let me tell you the most important. There's two there's two levels, two angles of importance. If it's an event, I like to go there, drink Get out of my element, become sarcastic, Dave. Somet I either I meet more people with it or I lose more people with it. But the ones I lose, I get a second chance and get back. But my favorite place to network are the are the exhibits, the exhibit Miami Beach Convention Center. That's my favorite place. I'll tell you why. Because now I I can target my demographic. Of course I'm drinking for free, I'm eating for free, but I can pinpoint And AJ is the best at filming. I mean, w we just did the food and beverage show where you were at. Uh-huh. You know they used our video? They they paid people to film the show. They used our video on their site. I saw that video and AJ does do an amazing job. by the way, a little update. They're doing another food and beverage show next week, case you don't know. really? Yeah, the one we went to is America's. That's for the whole world. The one next week is for America only. So you'll have Prime 112 giving out freeze tastings, Joe Stone crabs. You'll have vendors from the US. Whole Foods will be there. Yeah, and let me tell you, before we talk about philanthropy, for those of you watching that have a product or a business or anything you want to promote, call David. How do they find you? Where your website, Instagram, give it out. I go to my Instagram is David. One word by the way, David Lee L E E Roth R O T H sixty nine. And no, I'm that's not sexual, that's the year I was born, sixty-nine. Because I've had a couple girls go. That's disgusting. and you're my website's w dot neero n i double r o the letter G entertainment dot com. Or if you want well If you Instagram me, D DM me and I'll I'll get back to you as soon as I can. You know, I'll be give you my email address, but it's long. No, and they got your name on the screen and I'll add it on to here. Okay, let's talk about a little bit philanthropy, because you're really that that's when we really became close friends as a special Olympics when you got me in there and I was on my first red carpet doing interviews and my first interview Thanks to you was El McPherson. Remember that? Yeah. I was so nervous. That was so much fun. So how did you get into all the philanthropy and tell us all the different ones you're part of now? Well, you know what's funny you said that. this is this is really a weird story. You don't know this one. So in 2006, my friend Chandler Conrad, his father was the CFO of Burger King. And his father was also known. He blew up in the plane on takeoff. I think it was in Serbia with Senator Ron Brown. back in the day. He was killed. No, they blew up the plane. And he so I was I was his shoulder to cry on 'cause he he never got over the f he never he always wanted to make sure that he said one of his he wants it bothered him. He wanted to know if his father suffered or not. You know? Because the the back of the plane blew off, so they had pretty much lost the tail. And they hit a mountain. So in any event He he he wanted to repay me, so he introduced me to his friend Charlie Venturi. Charlie Venturi at the time was the president of what is that called? Hearts and stars. yeah, yeah, yeah. And we started talking, Charlie, and then he said, You know, I need a liquor sponsor. I got him a liquor sponsor and he put me on the committee. I was on the committee for nine years for the Hearts and Stars. I got out of it for a reason though. The reason why I got out of it was because I started looking deeper and deeper into the charity and I should have learned from my cousin. My cousin Barbara was the vice president of Make a Wish in boat you know Palm Beach County. Uhhuh. And I always wondered she makes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. That's a lot to make from a charity. Yeah. And then I found out that the charities only give between two percent up to ten percent of what cash they bring in. Wow, that's terrible. It's very terrible. And then now when I figured it out, after Hearts and Stars, after each event we did, we they would celebrate by going to La Piagia when it was open, and they would buy a beautiful table with magnum bottles of gray goose. They'd spend about six, seven grand. They drove nice cars. And one of my friends, Charlie, who was on there from the start time it started, he stepped down. And I said, Why why are you stepping down? He goes, I'm tired of supporting people that take ninety percent of what is brought in. Yeah. All right. So I, of course, got drunk and I was having dinner with them at the Clevelander. Rob Siena, that was his name. Charlie wasn't there. Rob is his partner. I said, you know, you guys are stupid. I go, You're taking all this money, man. And then I I went, I should get a piece of it too, 'cause I I'm bringing in most of these people. Mm-hmm. So word spread that I opened up my mouth and they did not put me back. On the committee again. Wow. Yeah. Then I went on now then I went on the make a wish committee in Miami. I did a lot of events there. I'm still honorary committee. I'm just not as strong like I used to. I did the Special Olympics with you. I kind of learned the safest charities to do are the pet charities. Because everybody loves pets. Yeah. It's not everybody loves Raymond, everybody loves pets. But are they giving most of the money really to the pets? You think Yes, they have to. Well, and nowadays aren't they really much stricter with the five one C three? No, no. As a matter of fact, y there's a website, you can even Google it. Just type in how to how to check charities donations and it'll come up and it'll list every charity on there and 'cause it and their audits and what they did, what they gave back. that's And y but it you know what they're very smart. They're very smart because one of the people on the committee owns the building. So that guy that owns the building writes the check to himself for lease space. So the money's going back in his pocket. Yeah. But they put that on the audit. So they say eighty four thousand dollars a year is to cover the lease in Miami. That's that that's eighty four thousand of his own money. Yeah. Yeah, that's too much. You know, you know, we do a lot with University of Miami and my dad has the Dawaskin Children's Cancer Research, and that's the biggest thing he argues with everybody about. Every single penny that he brings into his charity, which isn't a lot because he's the one donating it, but whatever he donates has to go to research only, no administrative, no and just directly to the doctors and the research. And he follows up and makes sure like a lot. Because even their brain and breast cancer gives like ninety percent to the cancer. Unlike like other breast cancer, like Susan B. Pullman, I think they give like ten percent to the actual research. So it's sad, but they should be more on top of that. Well, you know, I don't I don't know if you remember him. I don't wanna break it to you, but do you remember Joe Lewis, my friend Joe? You remember his you remember his friend Hassan? He was like three hundred and eighty pounds. He used to come to the our buffet. he was the breakdancing champ. He's the he's a nephew of Dapper Dan, who used to make all the clothes for Mike Tyson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So we haven't heard from him in a month, so we just found out he has prostate cancer. Yeah. Wait, I I just lost you for one second. Why? because of the prostate cancer? Yeah, that's how he found out he had it. He started losing weight drastically and it wasn't dying his diet. no. And yeah, that's he's gotta go get checked, he's gotta be He doesn't and know he's living in a motel right now, he can't he can't work, he can't pay his bills. no And I'm gonna tell you something sad. I p my friend did a a Go Fund Me page for him. Uhhuh. And it's un unreal that all these people that I blasted it out to, they'll spend twelve hundred dollars on a date with a girl, they'll spend four thousand for clothes for a girl, but they won't they went ha ha. 'Cause I even said it's pathetic you guys buy all this for girls, but you won't even donate ten bucks. They said, Yeah, but girls are different. That's my god. That's terrible terrible. Yeah. People, well the world is in a disarray. It's crazy. All right, let's Switch gears. Let's talk about your acting. What do you are you doing on screen stuff and marrying millions and are actually it's funny I haven't I actually had an audition yesterday but I had to change the appointment because I ha I got I got into a time crunch. It's the show it's gonna be a big show coming out. It's the reality show. It's funny when you brought it up. It's ten influencers where they put them in with people that wanna get motivated in a career and how do you motivate them? And they're gonna be filming it on Star Island. I don't know where. hopefully it's not Diddy's house 'cause I already have my own baby. I have my baby oil already. But yeah, I th that's I rescheduled it for next Wednesday at three o'clock actually. And that's something you enjoy acting? Yeah. Yeah, I do. I also like I like stand up comedy too. I might be getting back into that also again. and you should. You're funny. You gotta do something. Somebody made a mistake this this this comedian Liz Rubin asked me to come to her show. And I went there and she asked me to sit in the front. I said, You don't want me sitting in the front. She goes why? I go, 'Cause they're gonna they're gonna pick on me. She goes, So what's wrong with that? I go, I'm gonna fight back. Well, the audience loved me so much that the woman that was the MC said I'm not allowed welcome back there again. I can't. no, that's pretty That's why you don't wanna put me in the front. But you should do stand up. Are you gonna do a Robert Janeiro impersonation for us? Not on this not right now. I'm on I don't I I actually moved on to Denzel, Washington. I'm getting tired of the De Niro's. I love that's my favorite one. You're Robert De Niro. You make me laugh no matter what. But you can just bend the page like this and every time you want to laugh it looks like De Niro. my god, you're crazy. No, but you know what I wanna say for people watching this that know David or they think they know David but they don't really know David. Cause sometimes people get the wrong impression from you if they don't really know you. Cause you are sarcastic. You can tend to be like a little bit annoying at times to certain people. But once you get to know David, you have a heart of gold. You're a really beautiful, loving, giving, compassionate person and a good friend. But you don't show that side that often. Why not? Do you know too many negative people or what? I'm tr I'm tripolar. my god. Okay, what does tripolar mean? Well you got you know Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Yes. So it's like back in the day they would have movies like Dracula Meets Frankenstein or Frankenstein meets the mummy, and then there's one thing where you have the mummy, Dracula, and the werewolf. I'm all three. You are I come out at night. That is true. You're much more awake at night. That's why I asked you if you're 'cause you're out so late that you don't get up that early. it was I do get up ear I actually I do get up early and I can prove it. If I go to bed at three in the morning, theoretically I'm up at three in the morning, so I was up early. Yeah, but when you do go to sleep at three, do you sleep till what? Twelve? You know what's funny, the the later I sleep, the earlier I get up. Does that make sense? right I went to sleep at ten the other night, I woke up like eleven in the morning. I went to sleep last night. At one in the morning, I got up at seven in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. you're not staying out all night? Three o'clock in the morning anymore? I can't do it anymore. Yeah, we're getting older, right? But we're young. Young at heart. Okay, so what is your motto in life? What is your words of wisdom, inspiration for people? I would always say Don't ever give up. If someone knocks you down, get up, stand up, but don't give up. and I have a thing, I go by the word bad, B-A-D. I always tell people, you gotta be bad to be successful. Bad stands for balls, attitude, direction. If you have all three, you will succeed. You can't succeed with two attitude. You can't have attitude and direction, but no balls. You can't have balls and attitude and no direction. You can't have attitude and direction and no balls, attitude and balls, something like that. But you gotta have all three. You gotta have all three. And you know what? You got all three. And you know what's funny? When we're at a party, an awesome party, celebrities everywhere, music. I'm like so happy to be there. You're always back in the back on your phone doing conducting business. I mean, you never stop with the networking, with the sponsors, with the Do you ever just rest your mind and have like peace? Yes. That's usually when I do cocaine. shut up. No, I'm just kidding with you folks. I don't do cocaine, I just like the way it smells. God. And he knows never bring anyone around Lisa. We were at a party one time and this is funny. I'm born and raised in South Beach, well, Miami, but we're always out on South Beach. Remember, David, I'm He introduced me to all these people. I'm like, my god, that girl, I love that girl. She's so sweet. She's so spiritual. And you're like, Did you see her ring? I said, Yeah, it was so pretty. It was like a crystal. And you're like, Well, yeah, she lifted up and sniffed some coke out of the ring. Do you remember that party? Yeah, yeah. Like Smith and Wolinski long and I was like flower gasted. Yep. And I never see it. I never and and hey, I'm not here to judge. Whoever wants to do whatever they want to do, God bless them. I don't. Anyone comes near me with drugs, David's like, get away from her. She's a freak. Yeah. I'm the hell peace, peace, love, and light. No, but seriously, you are a good person. You're always working. You're helping people. I mean, I think you do a lot of great things in the world. Yes, you party. Yes, you are always that great party. But you bring a lot to people and I think you've gotten not as sweet and nice and giving because so many people would take advantage of you back in the day, remember? Yeah. And you And I'll tell you what, I I you're right. And my mother never said I apologize to me. God, you're too much. You must have had great parents. They did something good with you. So my parents were awesome. One time I was kidnapped and they got a ransom note and my mother took immediate action. She rented out my room. God. All right. If you wanna see David's stand up comedy, where are you gonna be? The comedy club? I'll probably be at the Hard Rock. Yeah. Are you really gonna do that? Coconut yeah, Coconut Creek Hard Rock. Not the same. wow. Yeah. That would be cool. All right. So you we're out of time and my dog is starting to bark. He just woke up from his nap. All right, and I'm out of time because my toilet's calling me. my god. All right, David. Thank you so much. Your words of wisdom were great. I love that. Balls, attitude, determination. No, direction. direction. Direction. Okay, sorry. Keep the balls and keep the attitude. And I will talk to you later. Have a good day, David. Thank you. Take care. Okay, bye. David Lee Roth, he is a trib. He really is. He's crazy. He's funny. Some people don't get him. Some people do, but he has a good heart and he really can bring a lot to an event, to a party. If you need sponsors, whatever, hit him up and I will put his information on this podcast in the comments. Don't forget, call me 754-222-4413-22. Leave me a thought, a comment, anything. Give me some motivation, inspiration. Tell me about your day. If you would like to be my next guest on Life Rescue, please call me one more time, 754-222-4413. Have a beautiful and blessed day. Remember, peace, love, and light. Breathe in beautiful positive energy. Exhale out any negative energy and I will see you next week on Life Rescue. Remember, it's a movement and a way of life. Mind, body, and spirit. Namaste, everybody. Have a beautiful day. Bye.