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<v Speaker 1>Small business shout Out This Thursday features rooster Fish.

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<v Speaker 2>They're in West Hollywood. They also have a spot.

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<v Speaker 1>On Abbot Kenny there in Venice, but we Ho is

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<v Speaker 1>latest Roosterfish. We Ho is the latest restaurant in bar

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<v Speaker 1>to open in West Hollywood, and it's a familiar spot,

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<v Speaker 1>at least for people like me who watched vander Pump

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<v Speaker 1>Rules for the better part of my life. Alex joins

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<v Speaker 1>us now and Alex, you helped to run Roosterfish there

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<v Speaker 1>in West Hollywood.

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<v Speaker 2>How long have you all been open?

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<v Speaker 3>We're going on our six month.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, so how's it going.

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<v Speaker 3>It's going really well?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah. Why West Hollywood?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, the original Roosterfish, which opened up in nineteen seventy nine,

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<v Speaker 4>is a historic gay bar, and we took it over

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<v Speaker 4>in twenty seventeen and you know, reopened it still opened

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<v Speaker 4>it up as a gay bar, but the demographics that

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<v Speaker 4>changed in Venice we have a lot more of like

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<v Speaker 4>a tech type of you know, Silicon Beach as I

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<v Speaker 4>call it. And when we always wanted to take it

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<v Speaker 4>to West Hollywood so it could go back to its roots,

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<v Speaker 4>and we had the opportunity once Pump closed, we were

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<v Speaker 4>able to take that location and it's the perfect location

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<v Speaker 4>for for for for rooster Fish, West Hollywood.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a nice spot too because it's bigger, much bigger

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<v Speaker 1>than your spot in Venice.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't really get big spots in Venice.

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<v Speaker 3>It's bigger.

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<v Speaker 4>And we also have food that we don't have in Venice,

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<v Speaker 4>so we have a kitchen component. So we're a restaurant

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<v Speaker 4>bar I want to say, actually a rest restaurant club

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<v Speaker 4>because the nightlife is pretty it's it's not necessarily just

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<v Speaker 4>a bar, you know. We really we have different events

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<v Speaker 4>every every week and it's fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Is there ever just a gay bar? Like isn't every

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<v Speaker 1>gay bar a gay club as well? I mean you

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<v Speaker 1>can go in in the middle of the day and

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<v Speaker 1>it's a party.

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<v Speaker 4>It definitely, especially on Santa Monica Boulevard and West Hollywood,

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<v Speaker 4>it's always party.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Talk about the food, I mean, who's who's designing the menu?

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<v Speaker 4>Who's so one of our one of our partners, Mario

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<v Speaker 4>uh he is an Italian chef, and our our mainstay

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<v Speaker 4>is you know, has a really we have really good

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<v Speaker 4>peaks of program pastas and so on. But we're adding

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<v Speaker 4>now more to it for because we're able to expand

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<v Speaker 4>on the on the menu there, so it's really an

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<v Speaker 4>American cuisine. We're gonna start We're gonna start putting some

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<v Speaker 4>uh some sushi components. We're gonna have more salid options.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a variety. It's rolling out next week. So I

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<v Speaker 4>don't have a full menu, but if you if you

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<v Speaker 4>check us out on our Instagram rooster Fish West Hollywood,

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<v Speaker 4>you'll see all of the updates that are be coming up.

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<v Speaker 4>But on occasion, like yesterday was country Night and we

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<v Speaker 4>had ribs, we had barbecue ribs. Tonight is Papasito Night,

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<v Speaker 4>which is Latin themed and we have tacos.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow, so really check.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean like we're doing what Roosterish.

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<v Speaker 4>Hollywood is like an ongoing show. So it's like every

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<v Speaker 4>day there's a new there's a new event. Yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 4>super fun. It's super fun.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to have a well stocked closet, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>to be a regular, You've got.

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<v Speaker 2>To have different outfits for different different nights.

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<v Speaker 4>You have to, like even even for myself, like I

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<v Speaker 4>have the constantly. Yesterday I was not shopping for cowboy

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<v Speaker 4>boots and a cowboy you know me.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, it was Wednesday, so I think everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>Cowboy can't look like a fool.

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<v Speaker 3>It seems like it because I couldn't find any.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it reminds me of a farmer once a wife.

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<v Speaker 1>I got into that show Alex last night.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>So what's your background? What the are you into restaurants

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<v Speaker 1>and bars? Is this your thing? Is this what you've

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<v Speaker 1>always done?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Not what I've always done. I'm one of four partners.

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<v Speaker 4>It's myself, my brother, Vincent, Mario, Chef, and Patrick. But

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<v Speaker 4>I've done a lot of different things. Starting off, I

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<v Speaker 4>was I was in the army. It was a paratrooper

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<v Speaker 4>in the army for a couple of years. Left that,

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<v Speaker 4>joined the l a p D for a couple of years,

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<v Speaker 4>and then transition into the family business with the furniture,

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<v Speaker 4>and we did restaurants and bars and hotels and so on.

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<v Speaker 4>And then about fifteen years ago my brother and I said, hey,

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<v Speaker 4>let's not just make furniture for these establishments, let's actually

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<v Speaker 4>own our own. Wow, And so that kind of that

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<v Speaker 4>was the transition.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like I would watch your major motion picture.

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<v Speaker 5>That's quite right.

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<v Speaker 3>There's a lot to it.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, tell us the parts you left out.

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<v Speaker 4>I wanted to say we only had eight minutes, so

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<v Speaker 4>I don't want to start.

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<v Speaker 1>If a guy mentions furniture and the police, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't want to get into like Denzel training days

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<v Speaker 1>type stuff right here.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so parking is parking an issue?

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<v Speaker 3>Parking is not.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, Parking is not an issue in the sense that

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<v Speaker 4>there is paid parking everywhere.

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<v Speaker 3>There's valley parking.

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<v Speaker 4>There's parking in front of the abbey, which is right

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<v Speaker 4>on right right next door, and then we're right next

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<v Speaker 4>to Bedega Louis and they have valley parking. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>it's never an issue.

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<v Speaker 1>It's always fun there no matter what time of day

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<v Speaker 1>you go over to that section of who it's a

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<v Speaker 1>good time.

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<v Speaker 5>In twelve thirty right now, Yeah, I mean.

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<v Speaker 4>We don't open until five, but you guys are welcome

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<v Speaker 4>to come over.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you give up for Jesus?

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<v Speaker 4>No?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, somebody else did? Oh Joe did Joe quant?

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<v Speaker 5>Did you could go to Lent?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? For Jesus?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh right right?

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't that the whole purpose of Lent?

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<v Speaker 5>It is? The answer is no, I did not. I

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<v Speaker 5>gave up other more valuable things.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, Naps, do you uh? Do you know?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there like a I remember the mural at Roosterfish

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<v Speaker 1>in Venice, Like, do you have that over there too?

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<v Speaker 2>Is there somebody that did that?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we actually have been waiting if the city was

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<v Speaker 4>Hollywood is listening, We've been waiting for them to give

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<v Speaker 4>us you approval because they count that artwork as a

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<v Speaker 4>business logo and so we're only allowed to have X

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<v Speaker 4>amount of frontage. But you know, it's very sad because,

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<v Speaker 4>as you say, the location in Venice, we have a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of artwork, Like now both the mural outside and inside,

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<v Speaker 4>is this.

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<v Speaker 5>The logo you're talking about?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it kind of.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it's it's it goes with the brand.

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<v Speaker 3>It is, it is, it is, it's become the brand.

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<v Speaker 4>But but the artist that did it, Diez, is amazing

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<v Speaker 4>graffiti artists, and we actually have permission from him to

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<v Speaker 4>recreate it. And in West Hollywood they just have not approved.

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<v Speaker 5>You're waiting for the city.

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<v Speaker 3>We're waiting for the city.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you going to have a rooster night where people

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<v Speaker 2>dress up like roosters?

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<v Speaker 3>That could be interesting.

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<v Speaker 5>Maybe you don't come up with maybe.

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<v Speaker 3>You can come up with it. I never say no.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds like a good time.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'll keep thinking.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I keep on thinking of Cocktail Napkin that Alex

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<v Speaker 5>Tappia one of the partners there at rooster Fish, the

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<v Speaker 5>new one in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard, one

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<v Speaker 5>eighty nine forty eight Santa Monica Boulevard. Again he mentioned

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<v Speaker 5>the Instagram account it's at roosterfish dot we ho