- This is my father Sasha.
A lot of you don't know my dad.
I love my dad very, very much.
Gotten some interesting comments
from the Larry King episode that I did.
You know, they're like,
"Oh, you really give your dad some good daps,"
and, you know, it's funny my kids are getting older and
I'm becoming a more experienced dad and I think that you know,
obviously, we got to know each other in the late 90s and early
2000's because you just worked so hard.
And I thank you for that, Dad.
I thank you so much for sacrificing and I know you did
it in a selfish way 'cause I do it too in a selfish way.
I know that it's your natural state to be an entrepreneur
and build for yourself.
But it doesn't take away from the fact of what you did and
what you established and how you
started the process of our family being here.
Not only did you but you brought the whole family
along with you including your mom and your grandparents and
you came to this country and you worked so damn hard.
You know it's funny, I think through all our frictions in
building the business, it's super easy and has always been
super easy for me to focus on how we're different and what
I don't agree on but I've been noticing a trend especially
maybe because I don't see you every day like I used to and
I'm not around as much on a
everyday basis with you but it's been
interesting to me over the last 24 months, 36 months to start
being more in tune than ever
with not our differences but our similarities.
Back in the day, in the late 90s or early 2000s, I really thought
that I was 90% mom and 10% you.
And that's really just because I didn't know you as well, Dad.
It's funny to me to recognize
how much more similar I am to you than I realized.
And, you know, I just want you to know how much you mean to me
and even though I think for a long time
in my 20s and 30s that
my own ego and my own pride
was so scared for the narrative to
be that you're the reason I was successful.
That you're, even to this day, Dad, I know you
don't read the comments on the internet.
You'd find it interesting how many people in a
YouTube comment will say, "Well, don't listen to this guy.
"His dad had a liquor store and that's why he's successful."
I was so scared of that, Dad.
I was so scared of that in my teens and my 20s.
It was the biggest fear I had.
And now, as those negative comments
or people that push back
are the far minority,
I find myself being passionate to make
sure that your legacy isn't lost and what you did isn't left
behind and it doesn't become the narrative of just what
I've accomplished without the context of what you accomplished
and how much you helped me to get there.
And so, I want you to know that and I want you know it now,
not when you're 90 or 100 or 130
when you're on your deathbed but
I want you to know it now of how much you mean to me and how
thankful I am and how much I learned from the way that you
and mom and navigated and how I do think my hard work and
my hustle is my separation from the marketplace.
And I know that's a learned
behavior by watching how you did it.
And I thank you from the bottom of my heart and so,
I thought it was a good time to say hey.
I love you.
(somber music)
Thanks for being on the show, Dad.
- You're welcome.
(Gary laughing)
A little bit of me. - We're changing the wine world.
- Who's more charismatic? (Gary laughs)
My son or me?
(DRock laughs) - Jesus.
They're gonna love you for this episode.
You're gonna get more votes that you deserve.
(somber music)