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Digital Social Hour

Derek Bonner Ran The San Francisco Night Light Scene | Digital Social Hour #129

Digital Social Hour

Sean Kelly

Self-improvement, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On today's episode of The Digital Social Hour, we sit down with Derek Bonner to discuss what the nightlife scene was like in San Francisco, near-death experiences & how he gamed the casinos in Las Vegas to get free comps. BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com APPLY TO BE ON THE POD: https://forms.gle/qXvENTeurx7Xn8Ci9 SPONSORS: Opus Pro: https://www.opus.pro/?via=DSH HelloFresh: https://www.hellofresh.com/50dsh AG1: https://www.drinkAG1.com/DSH Hostage Tape: https://hostagetape.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash enhance. You get scanned when you walk in. If it's a gang member it tells the door man it is but it says don't stop them

0:35.8

But and then he he walks in and then you know 15 minutes later the game task force comes with like 18 guys in combat gear almost

0:45.3

and they walk up to the guy with a computer and they're like oh this is you pay your

0:51.0

bill and get the go out.

0:52.6

Like 30,000 escorts in Vegas.

0:55.0

There's that money?

0:57.0

Geez.

0:58.0

I know they chill in the casinos at night, right?

0:59.6

They chill in the casinos tonight, but you know, it's one of those things it's like you know when I first

1:03.8

was here I didn't I couldn't tell the difference between normal yeah yeah I hear that story all the

1:07.5

time oh man and so I would just always assume every girl was in that's court so

1:12.4

so always assume every girl is in that's court so. Welcome back to the digital social hour. I'm your host Sean Kelly. I'm here

1:32.3

with my guest today

1:33.0

Derek Bonner how's it going that's going well man going well yeah so you're pretty

1:37.8

low-key so you're gonna have to tell people exactly what you do and how you got

1:41.5

started yeah you know there's there's a reason for that.

1:45.0

Obviously, I used to be in the nightlife industry

1:50.0

starting in maybe 1999 and then I moved to San Francisco and ran five different

1:58.6

nightclubs and what happened was it was right about the time that Facebook came together.

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