Unveiling the Gronkowski Dynasty: From Sports to Entrepreneurship | Digital Social Hour #46

So, how did you guys get into stem cells?

There's stem cell now for your piece.

It's supposed to help you, yeah.

Really?

Yeah, it's supposed to help your piece get bigger.

That's great news for you, Gord.

So, you can go from six to six point nine now.

I'll take that point.

Is that millimeters?

Are we talking millimeters?

What are we talking here, boys?

I love talking about Phopees all day.

All right, welcome to the digital social hour.

I'm your host, Sean Kelly.

I'm here with my co-host, Ari Gold.

What's happening, everybody?

And our guest today, Kyle and Gordy.

Yo, what's up, baby?

I was just muscle chugging to warm up this party.

Here we go.

Now we're about to get weird.

You're already on the IV.

What happened?

Um, you know what?

Well, we were just discussing.

I actually thought it was midweek, but uh, Ari just reminded me it's actually Monday.

That's what happens in Vegas.

Gords has no sense of time and space when he's here.

It's a fantasy land for him.

That's truly an impressive feat right there.

I got to tell you, though, because the second we walked in, he looked around and he goes, yeah, this is a great place.

All right, boys, set this shit up.

The guys came in, fucking hooked him up.

I'm like, all right, I need a service like this.

I think what's more impressive was last night when he was taking Zoom calls from XS with two friends.

I can manage that.

It's loud there.

I don't know.

Supposedly the meetings went well.

Okay.

Close the deal.

Hold on.

I want people to know.

I want you to give your background.

Tell people what you do, like how you guys know each other.

Give them the whole thing because everybody knows who the fuck you are, Gordy.

That's not important.

Yeah.

We want to know who you are, what your role is.

Give us the day-to-day and your background.

Absolutely.

So Gords and I have been friends for a long time.

I met.

the bros, Rob and Chris, when I was playing hockey at University of Arizona.

From there, created a friendship and good vibes and parlayed that into some good business opportunities that we've done.

And, you know,

we've had a good time along the way here.

What's your business?

What are you in?

So we own two businesses.

So Game 7 Sports Group.

It's a full service agency.

Nice.

Manage players.

We have a card, art, and memorabilia vertical as well.

We bring some packs for us to run.

What the fuck?

Let's hit it too.

We need to call Chum Lee, get him down here.

I'm not real type of shit.

Listen, I'm not opposed.

But then the last two verticals are pretty cool as well.

So we put on some different events called Change the Game Sports Series.

And within those events, we're getting some high-level celebrities and athletes to give back from a foundational aspect as well as

put on some events that they enjoy and have a good time doing.

So, last year we did the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi, which was super cool.

Gordz was a part of that.

He was muscle chucking on the sideline.

I was.

And we did the Jackie Robinson celebrity softball event, which is cool.

So, got

a couple events coming up, too, which I'd love to have you guys at as well.

Are we going to see anything down at the pier?

Oh, I mean, we got Gordy for 40, but that's that's a separate entity.

Gordy for 40, Gordy for 40 is not run through the business, but it's more pleasure.

Exactly.

We're turning the tall ship into a Vegas pool party pretty much in Boston.

Nice.

Yeah, we're having a good time.

And then the last piece of our business is the Regena Medicine side, which is pretty cool.

This is where he got the bag at Tequila.

Exactly.

Correct.

I want to dive into that side because you guys have the same doctor as Ari with the stem cell stuff.

So how did you guys get into stem cells?

So me personally,

I had some back issues playing professional baseball.

My first surgery was when I was 19.

And then I was like, I heard it again in the minor leagues.

I was like, dude, I need to find some that, you know, can help heal my body a little bit more efficiently.

And

I didn't really know much about it.

I know

you told me a lot before I jumped on

about the Semtagen.

I was weird about that shit, man.

You got to do it.

I've had some f ⁇ ed up surgeries and I did not want to go through that whole got to do surgery and then you got to do rehab and then you got to, you know, I'm like, I don't have six months to be sitting in a bed like twiddling my thumbs so when somebody told me I could get

I could get this called uh little baby stems I was like all right pump me in you can walk out I was like oh

let's see same day let's see what this is about yeah and I heard uh there's stem cell now for your piece it's supposed to help you yeah really yeah it's supposed to help your piece get bigger really yeah not even bigger you can get dude they have they have rejuvenation for women too like where you can like you could get tighter porn stars are getting it so it's like you know really peel a lot more.

So, the pH levels are better, and the tightness is good.

The P and the VP, you know.

Wow, this isn't because the Ps are all good.

That's great news for you, Gord.

So, you can go from six to 6.9 now.

Oh, hey, I'll take that.

Is that millimeters?

Are we talking millimeters?

What are we talking here, boys?

All right, all right, so switch it up,

even though I love talking about pee-pees all day.

Yeah, we really talked about stem cells there.

We already dig into it.

Look, hold on,

we'll dive into the fitness and health side.

We'll go into that.

So, all right, tell us what's in the bag of the IV.

How's that helping?

Because

I don't know what's in the bag.

All I know is at one point, Gordy looks over and he goes, yo,

turn this back up.

Yeah.

He's like, more?

And I just see him messing with the bag and it went from drip, drip to...

Gordy just sits back and he's like, yeah.

I don't know what's in this bag.

I'm going to have to ask Kirby.

uh with LIV, but I'm in Vegas and he's literally just saying myself.

I know you know what's in I thought it was southbound tequila at first, but I don't know.

It says Costa Migos look like Rubisado.

How often are you doing this?

Only when I come on your podcast.

All right, I'm honored.

Because I got to make sure I'm lit for it.

I'm honored, man.

Oh, my God.

What's your favorite Gordy?

Tell us what you got coming up, man.

Besides the Gordy Bavorty, unless you wanted to pipe into that, but I know you guys are working on some big shit.

Talk us through what you got coming.

There's actually a lot of cool things.

I mean, we dip our hands in a lot of stuff as brothers, as friends, as you know, whatever it is.

We just try to have a good time with what we're doing and whether we invest or whether we go in as equity partners.

Our next big thing, Tall Ship, which is like the hottest outdoor festival slash venue slash fitness.

Just a great time out in Boston.

We've been open.

We're going on our third year.

So Tall Ship's opening this Wednesday.

Love to get you guys out there.

We get about 12, yeah, 1,200 people

with about a two and a half hour wait on Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays.

Damn.

We don't even really do concerts or anything.

It's just, we just bring in a lot of people and we created such a cool atmosphere.

And the views from East Boston looking at the city are magical.

How's the weather during this like this time of year?

I don't know.

Hey, we're only open five months of the year.

So

not at summertime vibes.

Got it.

Summertime vibes only.

That's hope.

Yeah.

So that's cool.

I'm actually getting into the pickleball space.

I'm going to become a

minority owner of the new pickleball team.

So I'm about to make that announcement here soon.

I can't tell you what team yet or who's getting in with me, but I'm really excited.

Who's the best brother at pickleball?

I don't don't even want to go there right now because I've done a lot of Smack Talk recently.

Yeah.

Check tape.

I want to see where this leads because I, dude, I got addicted to a buddy of mine showed me what pickleball was.

I'm going out there and I'm getting my ass beat by like 80-year-old guys that are just...

Bing, bing.

So that happened.

Jedi.

So I did that.

I was at our mom's the other day in Florida and Chris was my partner.

And we went out there and, you know, there's the older people.

They're grandma.

You know, grandma.

They're skipping.

Grandpa.

and chris is you know chris he's shredded right yeah he comes out that intimidation factor is shred jack dude they don't even flinch yeah these they don't move no they're just returning everything back we're like trying to spike their feet they it's dude we got smoked i'm telling you and i was chris was so pissed he was blaming on me not to think he's like yo i go do my bad i couldn't get my serves in like these people just

shut the up he was blaming on me he was blaming on me

but i was like that yeah well that's the crazy thing about pickleball, too, is the rapid growth is because anybody can do it, right?

Yeah.

Like, from

grandma to, you know, it's like golf.

They're doing this lob thing because they, so they hit it over your head, so you got to run back.

Because that's like, I guess that's the old people's move or something.

Yeah.

Then they smack it down back at you.

Of course.

Wow.

Because the only way for you to return it, right, is to put air on it and put it up.

And once you put it up, all they have to do is strike down.

There's no way for you to.

Once it bounces down by your feet, you're f ⁇ ing.

Yeah.

I think my duper rating actually went up because duper people were so good.

Dupas for

it's like a handicap in golf, but

yeah, so but since I lost to these older people that were like legit, I think my rating actually went up.

Oh, yeah, interesting.

I don't know how that works.

So, what's your rating right now?

Um, I really don't know.

I thought it was 3.7, 3.69.

What if they go up to like five or yeah, five points?

Oh, so you're nice, that's like crazy.

All right, do you guys sports bet at all?

Oh, snap, you went there.

I mean, I don't have to.

I mean,

DraftKings already put a limit on me.

I only can go $35

max.

Yeah, they call it.

Sick.

They call me a shark.

Because you were winning that much.

I mean, I wish I was winning that much.

I won a little bit, but they said that my bets were shark bets.

And then they limited me.

It's a crazy market.

Listen here, you parlay fuck.

Exactly.

I didn't know winning 20, 30 G's was a lot when these guys are betting millions.

Right.

That's true, too.

Well, you know what I mean?

You're hitting 10 teamers or you're hitting a three, you know, five.

The whole thing is, if you're winning, if you're winning, no one likes that.

So they're going to find a way to make sure that you don't keep winning.

What is it?

We had homie of ours on.

That's why all these casinos are open.

Let's be free.

It's legit legal fraud for these guys, honestly.

But I mean, it's fun.

We like the action.

You know, when you're watching a game, not only is it fun just to watch, but the same token, you know, have a little bit of action on it, gets the juices flowing a little bit.

Obviously, us both being former athletes, you know, we need to keep the edge on.

If we can't be on the field or the ice, as might as well put a couple shillings on it and see what's going on.

I know.

That's the whole thing, too.

Yeah, yeah.

What are you doing?

Well, and you can ask most pro athletes too, or people who play sports, but like that rush you get is like when you're playing.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy.

It's the adrenaline.

Yeah, it's the adrenaline.

Even if it's $100 or $10,000, it's like...

It doesn't matter, bro.

It's adrenaline.

It's that same.

And listen, I tell people this all the time.

It's really hard for people to go from professional sports and living that lifestyle where everybody knows knows who you are and you have that that rush of winning a game or going through that fucking action and then coming off and going to that normal life and you're like yeah it's a big change dude what the like you barely get a rush when there's a bank robbery

like what like why do you think a lot of pro athletes go broke oh that's that's a great one I mean, I think there's, there's a couple of different, a couple of different options to that.

I think you don't have to be PC about it.

I mean, it's what it is.

I think Gords and I are both on the same page.

You got too many, too many chicks in the mix.

Yep.

Yep.

Or you just get caught up in the lifestyle, man.

Flashy.

The luxury, the lifestyle.

And unfortunately, that rush when you're younger,

if you don't know how to have someone manage or help you out or like, it can go fast.

You know, it's a fast lifestyle.

And if you can't get somewhat, you're never going to have a balance.

You got to try to stay as balanced as possible.

Of course.

And if you can't get near that and you're just running hard, you're going to have nothing when it's all I mean, unfortunately.

What's the best way for you to balance, would you say?

That's a great question.

One is to actually take the time to probably find someone who, you know, financially can help you out, like a financial advisor, sure,

that can sit you down and actually walk you through a week to week that actually has to be there with you and going through your finances, honestly.

Yeah.

So, like, where's your, why is your, are you losing this much money this week?

Like, so you can dial that back in versus six months later, you already spent everything you had, right?

Yeah.

And we say financial advisor, not bookie.

That's, there's a

big difference.

Not your cousin Vinny.

Yeah, exactly.

Yes.

Yeah.

Well, one thing I'll say, too, from kind of like an outsider's perspective and being able to spend as much time as I have with the Gronks, they're unbelievable, that transition, right?

So like Chris with Ice Shaker, Gorge with Gronk Fitness, Dan with Gronk Fitness.

You know, the things that they've been able to create also keeps them very humble and building, continually

going forward.

So it's been cool to see that from an outsider's perspective as well.

Yeah.

Not, you know, these guys aren't flashy.

You know what I mean?

They're, they're in there just being humble and good people, which is cool.

And it's been awesome being a part of that.

So it's cool.

Nice.

I want to dive into Gronk Fitness.

So how'd you get into that?

Because that's gym equipment, right?

Yeah.

So it's crazy.

We were actually kind of born into the health and fitness lifestyle.

Our father played football at Syracuse.

Four-year starter.

He started GNG Fitness.

Gronk Fitness is a DBA.

We do business as Gronk Fitness, but it's all under the GNG Fitness name.

Nice.

Yeah, so we've been open 33 years.

Yeah, 33 years.

We're one of the largest fitness distributors in the United United States.

We deck out gyms from beginning to completion

from the turf, the flooring, delivery and install.

We sell the equipment, we design it, and then we service it as well.

That's awesome.

So we started the name Gronk Fitness about eight years ago.

You know, Rob and I were chatting.

He wanted to come out with just like a pliability, agility fitness lineup with his spike logo on it.

So we got like the kettlebells, the bands, you know,

everything has a spike logo on it.

And so we started manufacturing our own product uh on top of distributing all the treadmills ellipticals from the top manufacturers in the world already uh so it was just a great um combination yeah great partnership better margins and think about the kids love it dude when they're using it with the spike logo on it like dude i feel like i'm working out like a pro athlete like rob like or the pros or yeah however it is because that's what we represent right branding's insane yeah right that's awesome so we started eight years ago but it's just a dba uh we've been able to take over six more states we're in 12 states now We're online, we're in all 50 states.

Wow.

Yeah, so it's awesome.

We have 15 retail stores, so you can come in and buy treadmills for your home.

Um, you know, for you know, whatever you want.

So, it's all treadmills, lip deals, bikes, anything.

We deck out the home gyms.

So, it's been an awesome run.

And dude, what better than having health and fitness and decking out gyms for our family, right?

Like, we just fit the brand perfect.

And I love it.

I got done with baseball.

I'm like, dad, I'm coming in with you.

He's been waiting for us.

He never thought all five of us would play pro sports.

So,

he literally just sat there and went to yeah what are the odds of that right yeah the odds of going first of all all of us going a d1 getting full scholarships none of us paid for school yeah and then to all go pro is it's crazy right the odds are insane they wrote a book every dad's dream yeah papa geez that's literally like dude's a dad i'm like that's gotta be a world

every mom's dream the creator the creator that's what they call i don't think that's every mom's dream i feel like every mom just wants her son to be like a doctor or a lawyer some normal where it's like all right mom i'm making you know a bunch of good money and i'm respected in the community.

Now it's like, oh my God, my son's on a f ⁇ ing Campbell's commercial slamming bowls of soup, you know?

Well, speaking of the commercial, what was it like going on Shark Tank?

Were you super nervous?

Dude, that's a great question.

I think I wasn't nervous because Chris was the one doing the pitch.

Okay.

It takes the pressure off a bit.

The plan to drive all the bros, yeah.

Easy.

Easy layoff.

Chris, you know, when he got done in the NFL with the Cowboys and, you know, finishing his career out in Denver with Peyton Manning, he's like, dude, I want some, again, around health and fitness, right?

He's going to the gym.

He's like, these plastic bottles, like, they don't do it.

I live in Texas.

My shake is warm as can be when I get to the car.

So I'm going to make something where my, you know, a drink, yeah, right there.

His ice shaker keeps a drink as cold as possible for longer than any other bottle.

And, you know, he did it.

We went on Shark Tank.

He just had us there as support roles to have fun.

We played Flip Cup against the Sharks.

I don't know if you saw every bro one flip.

You know, we smoked them in Flip Cup.

Obviously, I'm not surprised.

Respectable.

Yeah, then I sat on Barbara's lap and she wanted to pay us a million dollars for hanging out.

Wow.

Yeah, they finally released that scene, I think, recently.

It was awesome.

I gotta check that out.

Barbara gave you guys a mill?

No, she didn't, unfortunately, but she said, she gave Gords a mill.

Yeah,

she gave me the ride of my life.

She gave Gords a mill.

Unrelated investment.

That's her OnlyFans, right?

Yeah, exactly.

I need to get on OnlyFans.

I heard, you know.

Got you, buddy.

Thank you.

We can make it happen.

You think we have you all right?

$100,000 a month?

I mean, dude, listen, we 200.

We have girls that aren't even doing news on HollyFans that are doing straight fitness videos, bro.

So, have you guys had OnlyFan girls on the pod?

Yeah,

only one or two.

Yeah, it blew up.

Yeah, I bet that sells.

It does.

I'll go on OnlyFans, then I'll come back.

This is your guide for OnlyFans.

All right, perfect.

I got you guys.

All right, perfect.

All right, we'll segment out on that one.

We'll go for round two when we come back.

Good luck in the tournament, guys.

All right, guys.

Thank you.

We out.