Matthew Cox

When the nightclub is in a very wealthy area.

And you go there on any Thursday night, there's Lambo's, Ferrari's, Porsche's, Parkhouse.

Much more prevalent than it is today.

What was interesting about this particular setup is it was popular on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as a standard nightclub.

Sunday to Wednesday, there was essentially no business coming through there.

Well, that provides the key opportunities to surface capital because a full nightclub limits your ability to raise money, to push money through.

Well, what this particular nightclub would do is they would have live music events.

And so, you know, back in the mid-1990s, the Orange County music scene exploded in popularity.

Well, back in 93, like in the heart of the drug activity in my case, you know, you had bands like Korn.

Before they went on to achieve international stardom, they were playing disc club.

All these little Orange County bands that just cut their teeth playing at Robles' nightclub.

In fact, one of the Korn concerts is on YouTube.

There's like 200 people at his nightclub.

On paper, there's 1,000.

So you've got 800 people paying to cover, 800 people worth of phantom sales and alcohol.

Right.

And so on paper, that nightclub looks extremely successful because you've got three main nights, including one night, which is the hottest club in Orange County, and three or four nights a week with live shows.

So someone like a Bo Jackson steps in and he's looking at the numbers.

Exactly what happened with your buddy.

That's why the nightclub industry...