Matthew Cox

several decades ago the most popular athlete on the planet was Bo Jackson and so this was in the summer of 93 and so me and a group of my buddies were all partying at a nightclub in Beverly Hills called the China Club and so my buddy comes over hey you want to meet Bo Jackson you know I lived in Los Angeles but I was from Chicago I actually grew up just a few miles away from Comiskey Park well he was on the White Sox at the time so I go over I get introduced to Jackson we bullshit for a little while no big deal a year later I see him again at a nightclub down in Newport Beach

And so I walked over, reintroduced myself.

And he remembered, because there weren't too many guys from the south side of Chicago who had moved to Barley Hills.

And so we had this whole little conversation.

Like I said, we spent a few minutes bullshitting.

And then the second time around, he's telling me that he's making an investment.

He's taking a look at this nightclub.

He's like, man, this place is a gold mine.

He's like, do you come here often?

And I was like...

Like I knew it was being used to launder money.

Right.

Yeah, this is not.

And he's like, and so I'm like, oh, no, I come here.

It's, you know, it's a little bit.

I was actually out with my girlfriend who's one of her friends' birthdays.

It was more like it wasn't the type of nightclub I normally hung out at.

It was more of like a touristy trap place over in the fun zone area in Newport Beach.

Right.

But it was being used by people to surface capital.