December 8, 2025 • 22 mins
The tale of the most incredible birthday party ever—your FOMO is justified. PLUS: I Love Lucy Moment!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
First of all, recently, when I've been dating.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I have told a few people a fact about myself,
which is that every day, every day, at least one
I love Lucy moment happens to me, like every single day.
It could be big, small, but like I'll tell you
about my birthday, which was epic. But on my birthday,
I had dresses that were replicas of Scarface. They were stunning,
(00:39):
they were perfect. I was exquisite in my own mind.
And I went to go do my Glosian and my
loomy Glosian, and I was like, oh my god, this
is scary because I knew I was like just gonna
put one dot on the brush and just like get
out of my arms because it's like almost fool proof.
But nevertheless, I saw someone who works with me through
the mirror because she was filming me through the mire,
and I looked in the mirror and I saw her
eyes like go like saucers, and I had a glop
(01:02):
of loomy Glossian on my satin custom like I can't
like trauma. Okay, So every day, that's not the story
I'm telling. That'll be an aside, But just like every day,
at least one thing. It could be my tit falls out,
Like there's always something that is completely ridiculous, like on
my honeymoon, a gigantic I don't know if you fucking
(01:26):
call it an iguana or a lizard. If it's the
size of a cat and it's not an exaggeration, you
can come back and watch the show. Took a shit
in my in my honeymoon hotel room, Like has anyone
else in the history of mankind had an iguana poop
like a dog in their honeymoon sweet So like every
day something okay.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So the other day, I'm in Miami.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm a very organized person, and I've been through a
bunch of moves and renovations, and I always want to
know that my storage unit is it's just like a
small building storage unit. What's in there? Because things just
like land down there and live there. And I don't
really want much down there because it's a I don't
believe in storage. It's just like the vortex, it's the abyss,
it's it's the lock ness from you to triangle.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's just I don't believe in it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So I told some of my team to please just
inventory what's in there. Take a picture, send it to
me because I want to know because now all my
moves are done, everything's clean, everything's out, nothing's hiding like
we're lean and in this Inflorence or era of mine
with all this stuff, I just am constantly purging and
I just want it out.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I see.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
My driver in Miami Edson because he'd been told to
go down there and open it, and he says to
me that there's a lock on it. And I'm like, oh,
that's interesting, and I'm thinking maybe that's from one of
my former staff members and they like put a lock
on it, and we don't know the combination anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So I basically say to him, and there's a guy
from my building, like a super of my building in
the elevator, and I'm like, just cut it off. And
so he looks at the super guy. He's like, yeah,
we probably have one of those. So just like cut
it off. How much is a lock? Cut the lock off? Okay,
I've seen it in a million movies. So I go
to this E one electric car race and I'm there
(03:11):
and now I'm on the way and I'm with this
guy and I'm having pictures sent to me of what's
down there in my luggage era. I was sent a
lot of luggage, so I started seeing some luggage. It
looks a little like busted and beat up. Maybe I
left it down there just in case I travel somewhere
from Miami in a random case to who cares if.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's like the nicest luggage.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Then I see some clothes and I'm like looking at things,
and I start, this is me. I start to get overwhelmed,
and I only sweat the small stuff, so never focus
on the big thing that's going on, Like this could
be being sent to me as I was about to
speak in front of the White House, and I would
be more focused on these photos coming in because I can't.
I call it latching, like I need to unlatch. I
can't unlatch until the thing is done. I can't come
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home with a suitcase from Europe, from anywhere, from one day,
from an hour, from a date, from a night, from
a birthday party four o'clock in the morning. I can't
come home until every single thing is put away, till
my body's clean, like I can't rest until it's all done.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a problem. I can't change it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So now I'm on this at this daytime event and
I'm looking at my phone like what the okay? So
I'm texting back dump it, dump that, which is what
I do with a lot of my social media stuff.
I'll be out of town and I'll get sent pictures
of like give that away, dump that posh that I
need to review that, put that here, hang that, because
I don't want to walk into a mess. Like that's
(04:27):
the whole goal. So today's a day before I'm traveling.
I've gone through everything. I want to make sure my
team is really like tight right purging, so when I
come back, if there's more stuff built up, it's not
as bad. So on this day, I'm know that I'm
going to come home from a hot race, i am
on a date, I'm having drinks. I just want to
like come home in my apartment to be clean, not
to walk into a shit storm. So I'm like trying
(04:50):
to say what is what and what should go wear?
But like a lot of the stuff I don't understand,
and it's like some clothes from some brands and tags
and I'm like, did that come from a brand?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And may be in the move. My team just.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Thought, oh, we'll show it to her, but it got
lost in translation, it's just in the storage. And so
I basically give up, and I say, after saying to
dump a bunch of things, like dump the suitcase, dump that,
dump these things, I got like waterboarded, and I just unlatched.
I said, fuck it, just put it, leave it in
the apartment. When I get to the apartment, I'll look
through it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay. I walk into the apartment and there's.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Always a package, and I've got my bag and I
want to get in my clothes and I'm sweaty, and
I just want to like not deal with this. So
I walk in and there's a pile of shit on
my counter, and I get exasperated right away. It's never rational.
Ten minutes later, this whole task could be over, but
I don't like the feeling. So I walk I'm like, oh,
so I start going through it because I can't move
forward and do anything until this is done. So I
start going through it and I see like this really
(05:47):
nice luxury item that's not really my style, but I'm like, like,
this is cute I always wants.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And then get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And then I keep going through the suitcases I think
are gone because everything's now in a plastic bag because
the suitcases were thrown out. So I go through like
a order of it, and there's something from Talbots, but
like I had, I did a deal with Talbots, and
I bought stuff from Talbots when I spilled soup on
myself and I learned that I love Talbots. But there's
some stuff from Talbots, but I don't remember buying it.
Something from TJ Max. A brick hits me, a proverbial
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brick hits me, and I go, holy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Shit, this is not my stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
This is not my stuff, this is not my storage unit,
this is not my belongings. I directed my staff to
take a tool like Ray Donovan style or Sons of
Anarchy style and break open a lock in someone else's
storage unit. And then I proceeded to tell my team
(06:45):
to dump their belongings. Like what if there was like
a bag of cocaine in there, or a bunch of
vibrant anything. There wasn't, thank god, but like either I would,
I would die. So I'm like, well, oh my god.
And then I'm realizing that I told him to throw
shit out. I'm literally I text the guy who works
for me, and I'm like listen to me, and it
was actually no one's fault. The building who did give
(07:06):
a guy that I was dating the wrong car he
had bought in Numerocedes, and the building gave the wrong
car to him, gave him a Lexus one night. So
I'm blaming the building showed my driver the wrong storage unit.
So like, I know, I'm legally protected, and like it's
not my fault because I also have the proof that
day they gave the wrong car, But that's not the point. Like,
(07:27):
what an invasion of privacy? I am so sorry. I
don't know who the people are. I literally you know
how a kid will close their eyes and cover their
ears so like, and then they think you can't see them,
like they just because they've closed their eyes, like they
can't see you, Like I closed my eyes and ears,
I said to my team member.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was like, I don't know, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Throw money at the problem, right, a check, buy them
an apartment, buy them a look. I cannot be part
of this and I don't want to know anymore. It
never happened. I am hiding under a garbage can. You're welcome,
so I whoever they are are, if they ever listen
to my podcast. We don't have to discuss it. We
never have to. Don't make eye contact. I'm sorry. If
(08:05):
you need something, I'm always here to help you. I
did not take one thing. I didn't really look. It
was you have a very clean collection of belongings and
there was nothing untoward, like, what a horror? What a horror.
So I'm a watch collector. I have a world class
(08:26):
watch collection. Years ago, my best friend was wearing a watch.
Her husband is in the watch business, and she was
wearing a watch that she told me cost eight thousand dollars.
It was a watch called Enigma, said to be the
first watch that was stainless set with diamonds. I was
obsessed with it. I wanted I was broke. I could
never have had it. I'm a hunter. I'm a hunter
(08:48):
and a gatherer. I kept looking on eBay for years
and years, and then one day this watch came up
for eight hundred dollars. It is luxurious, it is stunning,
it is amazing. I have so many other stories like
that about finds that I've found on eBay, and the
hunt is as fun as the get.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sometimes it's right there.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sometimes you have to be a little patient shop eBay
from millions of fines, each with a story eBay Things
People Love. Next, I will tell you about my birthday
(09:34):
and my birthday party. So I have always wanted to
have a scarface party. I've never been to a scarface party.
I've never seen a scarface party. I've never seen even
a scarface costume executed properly. And the reason that this
is so ingrained and embedded in my life is because
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I saw that movie in the movie theaters nineteen eighty three,
and dozens of times after I've seen it, probably fifty times.
I know every line in the movie, and my mother
looked exactly like Michelle Pfeiffer. But she looked exactly like
Michelle Pfeiffer in that movie. So that movie was very,
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very relatable to me. It's not the type of movie
you take your kids to see at thirteen years old,
but I saw Halloween in the movie theater, and Eyes
of Laura Mars and every murder movie as a child
like I definitely did not have an appropriate childhood, and
seeing Scarface was the most appropriate aspect of my childhood.
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But the movie had so many references. We used to
go down to Florida and go to the diplomat during
that time, and we used to go to the racetrack,
Well used to go.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I grew up at the racetrack.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And so they go to the racetrack, and the outfit
that she wears to the racetrack is literally I have
a picture of my mother at my I think it
was my confirmation where she's wearing a hat like that.
My mother had that convertible Mercedes that I recently renovated
and bought. And I grew up with a bunch of degenerates,
like real racetrack drug doing, gambling degenerates. So the movie
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actually really feels like it's been part of my life
in childhood. We don't have to judge any of that.
We'd have to talk about that. My stepfather told me
that the mafia was after us. I saw a gun
in the glove compartment. I was going to night clubs
at thirteen years old, starting and I was at Palladium
at fourteen, Studio of fifty four. I was an adult
as a child. So this movie was ingrained in my
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body and I've always wanted to do it. And I
always looked exactly like my mother, but with dark hair.
She had blonde hair, and I had have tiny nose.
I do not have a nose job similar features. She
had a pronounced jaw. Everyone thought I looked just like her,
but with dark hair, and she had blonde hair and
she dyed her hair.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But I mean she was born blonde. I was not.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I was born in Brunette. So then it was like,
where am I doing it? I chose to do it
at a private club called Zzi is a very expense
membership private club that someone once took me for dinner,
and I fell in love with it, and I love
the food and I love the people. It's part of
the major food group, which is Carbone, and I just
think that they've done it properly. It's very chill and
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it's very elite. It's not like a shit show. It's
not like what the Soho House was when it started,
where it's like packed and who's who. It's not like that, like, yes,
you'll see Gazelle in sweats eating dinner with their kids,
or you'll see definitely famous people, but it's very chill.
It's not like a wild time, but it's beautiful and
done immaculately well, and they don't really do many private events.
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They don't do private events in these areas, and so
because of what has become a relationship with this brand,
they decided to make an exception and have this type
of party at this establishment. And so for me, that
was great and I paid for it. And I only
say that because many people offered to host my birthday
party for me for free, and I paid for it
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because ironically, I don't get things anymore, which is annoying,
because I don't like people to have everything that I have,
and of course every nosey be has everything I have
now because of social media. But I want to do
something really different, and so I wanted to do the
event in this space really differently, and I wanted to
do the scarface theme, and it started to evolve. Now
(13:17):
I used to produce events for a living, like large
scale Emmys, Grammys, the Rock movie premiere on Alcatraz, like
barging in electricity, living on Alcatraz, like in a prison
for like three weeks, like really difficult events. So I
know how to plan events, and even with my own
personal events, I'll obsess for a while, obsessed about this,
obsessed about that I wasn't like this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
About the planning of it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I literally had my ideas, had a really long detailed
sound list, had a vision of what I wanted it
to be, and then didn't really pull it together until
like a couple of days before, with like the props
and the things, and so it had a chill vibe
to it. It wasn't overly produced, which I don't like
when a place is too like too many florals, too
many chair covers, too much.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's like to produce.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's two wedding, like two stage two choreographed, like I'm
a very like I like to give a framework and
then we're going to call her in the lines together.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It was like that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
As far as the planning of the party menu, I
could plan on food menu that's gonna be amazing with
my eyes closed, Like I'm a pretty excellent party planner
with the vibe and the flow and all of that.
And as Ian Schrager on this podcast said, Ian Schrager
was duty of fifty four and the Delano and the Mandria.
He said, it's an alchemy, so you never know. And
what happened was my best friend Sarah was always going
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to be in Saudi Arabia and somewhere else and for
three weeks. So I was never going to do my
birthday party in like July, like I wasn't gonna shoot
fucking kill the whole month of November. And my friend
Terry was coming home and was going to be able
to make this particular date because I already changed it
once for at least one of them to come, and
so it was literally like ring around the rosie. I
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kept trying to change the day for people. It was
getting irritating, and then I finally said, fuck it, this
is the date, and this is the date. So Terry
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then got stuck because of all the flight problems that
she got stuck in India. She's still not back. And
it was always going to be like fifty five people.
I like intimate parties, it was always gonna be like
fifty five people. So I invited close friends. But I
started to like really curate who I invited and who
I wanted to be there and why. And I say
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this because of course I had friends that I've known
since college there, and people that I've known for decades,
and Laney who's been with me for ten years. But
I also had many people that I've met over the
last decade, fewer over the last five years. But just
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like there was a curation and a combination that reflected
the theme of scarf face, the colorful personalities of really
Miami even versus South Florida. Really mostly Miami, but others
from different parts of Florida. Now definitely Florida. But it
connected my new life with my old life, and it
connected my move like I've moved here, this is our community.
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But like it also made me stretch a little and
be more open because so many people reach out to me,
and I trust no one, and I'm just paranoid and
I only have my very small circle of friends, and
I'm not really interested in like big groups of friends,
and I am very closed off. So I want to
like cancel something before it even starts. I want to
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like not do it before it's even off to the races.
It's almost irrational. It's just like I start to get anxiety. Now,
let's layer that in with me always despising my birthday
and the first time in years what I can remember,
like in my birthday was this birthday in Florida. Just
the simplicity of the dinner with my daughter, the way
that she woke me up. I love you, Mama, it's
your special day. The way that I got nice, beautiful
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flowers from suitors and things like that. But it just
was a calm day. But I didn't have the anxiety
I always have. I didn't have the highs and lows
if it's nothing but it's everything you did too much
or we didn't do enough, or I didn't have all
the triggering of it being my mother's birthday. I didn't
have any of that. But a birthday party is a
different element. I actually forgot to say at my speech
on my birthday that it was born in my mother's birthday.
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So there's a poetry to the costume because I ended
up looking just like my mother. So as the event
came closer, I started to like open it up a
little and I invited some last minute people that I
just know are in Florida. I know they would love
to calm and I know they would add to it,
and they were very Miami and very like open and
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would probably participate in the theme. And to be honest,
that's what made the party. It just wasn't my traditional
friend group, only it was more open and it was
like I was thinking about each table as like, oh wait, Okay,
well that's a success tech guy and he'd like to
talk to that guy about that guy. Oh, well, that
person's daughter goes to Universe in Miami, so this other
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person would be good there. Or oh, this one's like
an artist, and this one's like a nightclub impresario. And
this one's in real estate, this one's in architecture, this
one's in it. And I really really somehow pulled it
together and didn't And the music, I was literally down
to the detail curating the music. And then my outfit
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came together. And then I brought the car, my car
that I renovated for my mother, the vintage Mercedes that
was right around the same time as the movie came out,
so it's an iconic of that era car, and we
brought it down to Miami, and this movie was based
in Miami, and like Miami's got that like gritty, like
sexiness that's like a little sleazy to it. And so
like the party had that, and the way that the
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men dressed and they looked like degenerates, and like everyone
just came correct, like it just was the alchemy came
together and I leaned into it, and like I embodied
the character of shelf ei Forer in scarface, like I
never put my cigarette down for one second. I didn't
feel complete without it. I didn't put my lighter down.
It just all came together, the money, guns, the it
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was just amazing. There was an elegance and a sleaziness
at the same time, like a Miami and a sexiness
and a fucking I'm in the right room at the
right time. And the way I sent the invitations out
wasn't like rich, bougie bitch like. I didn't send out
like print did whatever. And I didn't make a big
deal about it and had my assistant to do it.
I just texted it. And there were some people that
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didn't come, that didn't make the effort to come, like
they just weren't in town or they were gonna be away,
and like now they're freaking out having fomo that they
didn't come because, like I guess, I was chill about it,
because I'm chill about come or don't com. I don't
give a shit to do what you want. It's gonna
come together the way it's supposed to meeting. If you
don't come, I'm gonna fill that seat with someone who will.
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Because remember I'm not the one hundred and fifty person
birthday party. I'm the fifty five person birthday party because
I want the alchemy. So like, whoever couldn't come, I
was like, great, And then I invited someone else and
no one cared that I invited them a week before.
It's not my wedding. It was just like, I want
you there, come and you're gonna have a great time.
But I do love many of the people that couldn't come,
like totally having fomo because it was a ten out
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of ten. And I'll tell you a true story is
that the DJ that works out of the space and
he does all like high end celebrity like fashion, like
model like major parties like Miami like debauchery parties. And
he said to me, this is the best party we've
ever done. And he said, I don't I'm not gonna
believe this. I don't give myself flowers. And this way,
he was like, and it was because of the way
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you set the tone, and I really did lean into
it all the way. I had the best night. The
night before I made the stupid, moronic mistake of going
out with Chris Appleton to six places, had seventy five drinks,
went on a boat, went in a caban, I watched
the movie, had a lunch, had tequila sodas, went to
a club, went to an afterclub, like Moron was so
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sick all day. But I really only had one drink
on the night of the party, and it was Chef's kiss.
I was so present. I wasn't like slosh, I didn't
look sloppy. I just had the best time ever, and
so did everyone else. There's not a person who was
there who didn't message me to be like what the fuck.
And it wasn't like what the fuck that we were
like hanging from chandalis for five in the morning. It
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was also very adult, like everyone had the best time,
but like everyone was so respectful.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It was really unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
One of the best parties I've ever been to, one
of the best parties I've ever had. If not the
best party, I think the best party and the best
night ever. Like it was honestly epic. I'm so grateful.
And now I broke the seal because now I literally
already know what I'm doing next. I'm so excited. I
finally like broke the seal and I went with it,
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even though I was uncomfortable, and I invited two women,
Lisa and Rita, these influencers, the day before, just because
I thought to myself, you know, I'd flown in Laney
and been like, let me get you a hotel. It's
not going to be complete without you there, even just
for the night, and flew in these two women and
like itsa or one of them. I think she was
already coming, but offered to get her hotel and one
of them, who cares. I brought in some women who
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are influencers who I knew would appreciate it. They were
such an addition. I loved it. It just it was extraordinary.
I had the best time ever. So if any of
you were there, I'm grateful. And if you weren't there,
you definitely missed out and you have a reason to
f fomo
First of all, recently, when I've been dating.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I have told a few people a fact about myself,
which is that every day, every day, at least one
I love Lucy moment happens to me, like every single day.
It could be big, small, but like I'll tell you
about my birthday, which was epic. But on my birthday,
I had dresses that were replicas of Scarface. They were stunning,
(00:39):
they were perfect. I was exquisite in my own mind.
And I went to go do my Glosian and my
loomy Glosian, and I was like, oh my god, this
is scary because I knew I was like just gonna
put one dot on the brush and just like get
out of my arms because it's like almost fool proof.
But nevertheless, I saw someone who works with me through
the mirror because she was filming me through the mire,
and I looked in the mirror and I saw her
eyes like go like saucers, and I had a glop
(01:02):
of loomy Glossian on my satin custom like I can't
like trauma. Okay, So every day, that's not the story
I'm telling. That'll be an aside, But just like every day,
at least one thing. It could be my tit falls out,
Like there's always something that is completely ridiculous, like on
my honeymoon, a gigantic I don't know if you fucking
(01:26):
call it an iguana or a lizard. If it's the
size of a cat and it's not an exaggeration, you
can come back and watch the show. Took a shit
in my in my honeymoon hotel room, Like has anyone
else in the history of mankind had an iguana poop
like a dog in their honeymoon sweet So like every
day something okay.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So the other day, I'm in Miami.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm a very organized person, and I've been through a
bunch of moves and renovations, and I always want to
know that my storage unit is it's just like a
small building storage unit. What's in there? Because things just
like land down there and live there. And I don't
really want much down there because it's a I don't
believe in storage. It's just like the vortex, it's the abyss,
it's it's the lock ness from you to triangle.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's just I don't believe in it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So I told some of my team to please just
inventory what's in there. Take a picture, send it to
me because I want to know because now all my
moves are done, everything's clean, everything's out, nothing's hiding like
we're lean and in this Inflorence or era of mine
with all this stuff, I just am constantly purging and
I just want it out.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I see.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
My driver in Miami Edson because he'd been told to
go down there and open it, and he says to
me that there's a lock on it. And I'm like, oh,
that's interesting, and I'm thinking maybe that's from one of
my former staff members and they like put a lock
on it, and we don't know the combination anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So I basically say to him, and there's a guy
from my building, like a super of my building in
the elevator, and I'm like, just cut it off. And
so he looks at the super guy. He's like, yeah,
we probably have one of those. So just like cut
it off. How much is a lock? Cut the lock off? Okay,
I've seen it in a million movies. So I go
to this E one electric car race and I'm there
(03:11):
and now I'm on the way and I'm with this
guy and I'm having pictures sent to me of what's
down there in my luggage era. I was sent a
lot of luggage, so I started seeing some luggage. It
looks a little like busted and beat up. Maybe I
left it down there just in case I travel somewhere
from Miami in a random case to who cares if.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's like the nicest luggage.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Then I see some clothes and I'm like looking at things,
and I start, this is me. I start to get overwhelmed,
and I only sweat the small stuff, so never focus
on the big thing that's going on, Like this could
be being sent to me as I was about to
speak in front of the White House, and I would
be more focused on these photos coming in because I can't.
I call it latching, like I need to unlatch. I
can't unlatch until the thing is done. I can't come
(03:50):
home with a suitcase from Europe, from anywhere, from one day,
from an hour, from a date, from a night, from
a birthday party four o'clock in the morning. I can't
come home until every single thing is put away, till
my body's clean, like I can't rest until it's all done.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a problem. I can't change it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So now I'm on this at this daytime event and
I'm looking at my phone like what the okay? So
I'm texting back dump it, dump that, which is what
I do with a lot of my social media stuff.
I'll be out of town and I'll get sent pictures
of like give that away, dump that posh that I
need to review that, put that here, hang that, because
I don't want to walk into a mess. Like that's
(04:27):
the whole goal. So today's a day before I'm traveling.
I've gone through everything. I want to make sure my
team is really like tight right purging, so when I
come back, if there's more stuff built up, it's not
as bad. So on this day, I'm know that I'm
going to come home from a hot race, i am
on a date, I'm having drinks. I just want to
like come home in my apartment to be clean, not
to walk into a shit storm. So I'm like trying
(04:50):
to say what is what and what should go wear?
But like a lot of the stuff I don't understand,
and it's like some clothes from some brands and tags
and I'm like, did that come from a brand?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
And may be in the move. My team just.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Thought, oh, we'll show it to her, but it got
lost in translation, it's just in the storage. And so
I basically give up, and I say, after saying to
dump a bunch of things, like dump the suitcase, dump that,
dump these things, I got like waterboarded, and I just unlatched.
I said, fuck it, just put it, leave it in
the apartment. When I get to the apartment, I'll look
through it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay. I walk into the apartment and there's.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Always a package, and I've got my bag and I
want to get in my clothes and I'm sweaty, and
I just want to like not deal with this. So
I walk in and there's a pile of shit on
my counter, and I get exasperated right away. It's never rational.
Ten minutes later, this whole task could be over, but
I don't like the feeling. So I walk I'm like, oh,
so I start going through it because I can't move
forward and do anything until this is done. So I
start going through it and I see like this really
(05:47):
nice luxury item that's not really my style, but I'm like, like,
this is cute I always wants.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And then get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And then I keep going through the suitcases I think
are gone because everything's now in a plastic bag because
the suitcases were thrown out. So I go through like
a order of it, and there's something from Talbots, but
like I had, I did a deal with Talbots, and
I bought stuff from Talbots when I spilled soup on
myself and I learned that I love Talbots. But there's
some stuff from Talbots, but I don't remember buying it.
Something from TJ Max. A brick hits me, a proverbial
(06:15):
brick hits me, and I go, holy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Shit, this is not my stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
This is not my stuff, this is not my storage unit,
this is not my belongings. I directed my staff to
take a tool like Ray Donovan style or Sons of
Anarchy style and break open a lock in someone else's
storage unit. And then I proceeded to tell my team
(06:45):
to dump their belongings. Like what if there was like
a bag of cocaine in there, or a bunch of
vibrant anything. There wasn't, thank god, but like either I would,
I would die. So I'm like, well, oh my god.
And then I'm realizing that I told him to throw
shit out. I'm literally I text the guy who works
for me, and I'm like listen to me, and it
was actually no one's fault. The building who did give
(07:06):
a guy that I was dating the wrong car he
had bought in Numerocedes, and the building gave the wrong
car to him, gave him a Lexus one night. So
I'm blaming the building showed my driver the wrong storage unit.
So like, I know, I'm legally protected, and like it's
not my fault because I also have the proof that
day they gave the wrong car, But that's not the point. Like,
(07:27):
what an invasion of privacy? I am so sorry. I
don't know who the people are. I literally you know
how a kid will close their eyes and cover their
ears so like, and then they think you can't see them,
like they just because they've closed their eyes, like they
can't see you, Like I closed my eyes and ears,
I said to my team member.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was like, I don't know, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Throw money at the problem, right, a check, buy them
an apartment, buy them a look. I cannot be part
of this and I don't want to know anymore. It
never happened. I am hiding under a garbage can. You're welcome,
so I whoever they are are, if they ever listen
to my podcast. We don't have to discuss it. We
never have to. Don't make eye contact. I'm sorry. If
(08:05):
you need something, I'm always here to help you. I
did not take one thing. I didn't really look. It
was you have a very clean collection of belongings and
there was nothing untoward, like, what a horror? What a horror.
So I'm a watch collector. I have a world class
(08:26):
watch collection. Years ago, my best friend was wearing a watch.
Her husband is in the watch business, and she was
wearing a watch that she told me cost eight thousand dollars.
It was a watch called Enigma, said to be the
first watch that was stainless set with diamonds. I was
obsessed with it. I wanted I was broke. I could
never have had it. I'm a hunter. I'm a hunter
(08:48):
and a gatherer. I kept looking on eBay for years
and years, and then one day this watch came up
for eight hundred dollars. It is luxurious, it is stunning,
it is amazing. I have so many other stories like
that about finds that I've found on eBay, and the
hunt is as fun as the get.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sometimes it's right there.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sometimes you have to be a little patient shop eBay
from millions of fines, each with a story eBay Things
People Love. Next, I will tell you about my birthday
(09:34):
and my birthday party. So I have always wanted to
have a scarface party. I've never been to a scarface party.
I've never seen a scarface party. I've never seen even
a scarface costume executed properly. And the reason that this
is so ingrained and embedded in my life is because
(09:57):
I saw that movie in the movie theaters nineteen eighty three,
and dozens of times after I've seen it, probably fifty times.
I know every line in the movie, and my mother
looked exactly like Michelle Pfeiffer. But she looked exactly like
Michelle Pfeiffer in that movie. So that movie was very,
(10:19):
very relatable to me. It's not the type of movie
you take your kids to see at thirteen years old,
but I saw Halloween in the movie theater, and Eyes
of Laura Mars and every murder movie as a child
like I definitely did not have an appropriate childhood, and
seeing Scarface was the most appropriate aspect of my childhood.
(10:39):
But the movie had so many references. We used to
go down to Florida and go to the diplomat during
that time, and we used to go to the racetrack,
Well used to go.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I grew up at the racetrack.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And so they go to the racetrack, and the outfit
that she wears to the racetrack is literally I have
a picture of my mother at my I think it
was my confirmation where she's wearing a hat like that.
My mother had that convertible Mercedes that I recently renovated
and bought. And I grew up with a bunch of degenerates,
like real racetrack drug doing, gambling degenerates. So the movie
(11:11):
actually really feels like it's been part of my life
in childhood. We don't have to judge any of that.
We'd have to talk about that. My stepfather told me
that the mafia was after us. I saw a gun
in the glove compartment. I was going to night clubs
at thirteen years old, starting and I was at Palladium
at fourteen, Studio of fifty four. I was an adult
as a child. So this movie was ingrained in my
(11:33):
body and I've always wanted to do it. And I
always looked exactly like my mother, but with dark hair.
She had blonde hair, and I had have tiny nose.
I do not have a nose job similar features. She
had a pronounced jaw. Everyone thought I looked just like her,
but with dark hair, and she had blonde hair and
she dyed her hair.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But I mean she was born blonde. I was not.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I was born in Brunette. So then it was like,
where am I doing it? I chose to do it
at a private club called Zzi is a very expense
membership private club that someone once took me for dinner,
and I fell in love with it, and I love
the food and I love the people. It's part of
the major food group, which is Carbone, and I just
think that they've done it properly. It's very chill and
(12:14):
it's very elite. It's not like a shit show. It's
not like what the Soho House was when it started,
where it's like packed and who's who. It's not like that, like, yes,
you'll see Gazelle in sweats eating dinner with their kids,
or you'll see definitely famous people, but it's very chill.
It's not like a wild time, but it's beautiful and
done immaculately well, and they don't really do many private events.
(12:35):
They don't do private events in these areas, and so
because of what has become a relationship with this brand,
they decided to make an exception and have this type
of party at this establishment. And so for me, that
was great and I paid for it. And I only
say that because many people offered to host my birthday
party for me for free, and I paid for it
(12:57):
because ironically, I don't get things anymore, which is annoying,
because I don't like people to have everything that I have,
and of course every nosey be has everything I have
now because of social media. But I want to do
something really different, and so I wanted to do the
event in this space really differently, and I wanted to
do the scarface theme, and it started to evolve. Now
(13:17):
I used to produce events for a living, like large
scale Emmys, Grammys, the Rock movie premiere on Alcatraz, like
barging in electricity, living on Alcatraz, like in a prison
for like three weeks, like really difficult events. So I
know how to plan events, and even with my own
personal events, I'll obsess for a while, obsessed about this,
obsessed about that I wasn't like this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
About the planning of it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I literally had my ideas, had a really long detailed
sound list, had a vision of what I wanted it
to be, and then didn't really pull it together until
like a couple of days before, with like the props
and the things, and so it had a chill vibe
to it. It wasn't overly produced, which I don't like
when a place is too like too many florals, too
many chair covers, too much.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's like to produce.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's two wedding, like two stage two choreographed, like I'm
a very like I like to give a framework and
then we're going to call her in the lines together.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It was like that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
As far as the planning of the party menu, I
could plan on food menu that's gonna be amazing with
my eyes closed, Like I'm a pretty excellent party planner
with the vibe and the flow and all of that.
And as Ian Schrager on this podcast said, Ian Schrager
was duty of fifty four and the Delano and the Mandria.
He said, it's an alchemy, so you never know. And
what happened was my best friend Sarah was always going
(14:32):
to be in Saudi Arabia and somewhere else and for
three weeks. So I was never going to do my
birthday party in like July, like I wasn't gonna shoot
fucking kill the whole month of November. And my friend
Terry was coming home and was going to be able
to make this particular date because I already changed it
once for at least one of them to come, and
so it was literally like ring around the rosie. I
(14:53):
kept trying to change the day for people. It was
getting irritating, and then I finally said, fuck it, this
is the date, and this is the date. So Terry
(15:13):
then got stuck because of all the flight problems that
she got stuck in India. She's still not back. And
it was always going to be like fifty five people.
I like intimate parties, it was always gonna be like
fifty five people. So I invited close friends. But I
started to like really curate who I invited and who
I wanted to be there and why. And I say
(15:36):
this because of course I had friends that I've known
since college there, and people that I've known for decades,
and Laney who's been with me for ten years. But
I also had many people that I've met over the
last decade, fewer over the last five years. But just
(15:57):
like there was a curation and a combination that reflected
the theme of scarf face, the colorful personalities of really
Miami even versus South Florida. Really mostly Miami, but others
from different parts of Florida. Now definitely Florida. But it
connected my new life with my old life, and it
connected my move like I've moved here, this is our community.
(16:19):
But like it also made me stretch a little and
be more open because so many people reach out to me,
and I trust no one, and I'm just paranoid and
I only have my very small circle of friends, and
I'm not really interested in like big groups of friends,
and I am very closed off. So I want to
like cancel something before it even starts. I want to
(16:40):
like not do it before it's even off to the races.
It's almost irrational. It's just like I start to get anxiety. Now,
let's layer that in with me always despising my birthday
and the first time in years what I can remember,
like in my birthday was this birthday in Florida. Just
the simplicity of the dinner with my daughter, the way
that she woke me up. I love you, Mama, it's
your special day. The way that I got nice, beautiful
(17:02):
flowers from suitors and things like that. But it just
was a calm day. But I didn't have the anxiety
I always have. I didn't have the highs and lows
if it's nothing but it's everything you did too much
or we didn't do enough, or I didn't have all
the triggering of it being my mother's birthday. I didn't
have any of that. But a birthday party is a
different element. I actually forgot to say at my speech
on my birthday that it was born in my mother's birthday.
(17:24):
So there's a poetry to the costume because I ended
up looking just like my mother. So as the event
came closer, I started to like open it up a
little and I invited some last minute people that I
just know are in Florida. I know they would love
to calm and I know they would add to it,
and they were very Miami and very like open and
(17:44):
would probably participate in the theme. And to be honest,
that's what made the party. It just wasn't my traditional
friend group, only it was more open and it was
like I was thinking about each table as like, oh wait, Okay,
well that's a success tech guy and he'd like to
talk to that guy about that guy. Oh, well, that
person's daughter goes to Universe in Miami, so this other
(18:06):
person would be good there. Or oh, this one's like
an artist, and this one's like a nightclub impresario. And
this one's in real estate, this one's in architecture, this
one's in it. And I really really somehow pulled it
together and didn't And the music, I was literally down
to the detail curating the music. And then my outfit
(18:26):
came together. And then I brought the car, my car
that I renovated for my mother, the vintage Mercedes that
was right around the same time as the movie came out,
so it's an iconic of that era car, and we
brought it down to Miami, and this movie was based
in Miami, and like Miami's got that like gritty, like
sexiness that's like a little sleazy to it. And so
like the party had that, and the way that the
(18:47):
men dressed and they looked like degenerates, and like everyone
just came correct, like it just was the alchemy came
together and I leaned into it, and like I embodied
the character of shelf ei Forer in scarface, like I
never put my cigarette down for one second. I didn't
feel complete without it. I didn't put my lighter down.
It just all came together, the money, guns, the it
(19:11):
was just amazing. There was an elegance and a sleaziness
at the same time, like a Miami and a sexiness
and a fucking I'm in the right room at the
right time. And the way I sent the invitations out
wasn't like rich, bougie bitch like. I didn't send out
like print did whatever. And I didn't make a big
deal about it and had my assistant to do it.
I just texted it. And there were some people that
(19:33):
didn't come, that didn't make the effort to come, like
they just weren't in town or they were gonna be away,
and like now they're freaking out having fomo that they
didn't come because, like I guess, I was chill about it,
because I'm chill about come or don't com. I don't
give a shit to do what you want. It's gonna
come together the way it's supposed to meeting. If you
don't come, I'm gonna fill that seat with someone who will.
(19:54):
Because remember I'm not the one hundred and fifty person
birthday party. I'm the fifty five person birthday party because
I want the alchemy. So like, whoever couldn't come, I
was like, great, And then I invited someone else and
no one cared that I invited them a week before.
It's not my wedding. It was just like, I want
you there, come and you're gonna have a great time.
But I do love many of the people that couldn't come,
like totally having fomo because it was a ten out
(20:15):
of ten. And I'll tell you a true story is
that the DJ that works out of the space and
he does all like high end celebrity like fashion, like
model like major parties like Miami like debauchery parties. And
he said to me, this is the best party we've
ever done. And he said, I don't I'm not gonna
believe this. I don't give myself flowers. And this way,
he was like, and it was because of the way
(20:37):
you set the tone, and I really did lean into
it all the way. I had the best night. The
night before I made the stupid, moronic mistake of going
out with Chris Appleton to six places, had seventy five drinks,
went on a boat, went in a caban, I watched
the movie, had a lunch, had tequila sodas, went to
a club, went to an afterclub, like Moron was so
(20:57):
sick all day. But I really only had one drink
on the night of the party, and it was Chef's kiss.
I was so present. I wasn't like slosh, I didn't
look sloppy. I just had the best time ever, and
so did everyone else. There's not a person who was
there who didn't message me to be like what the fuck.
And it wasn't like what the fuck that we were
like hanging from chandalis for five in the morning. It
(21:18):
was also very adult, like everyone had the best time,
but like everyone was so respectful.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It was really unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
One of the best parties I've ever been to, one
of the best parties I've ever had. If not the
best party, I think the best party and the best
night ever. Like it was honestly epic. I'm so grateful.
And now I broke the seal because now I literally
already know what I'm doing next. I'm so excited. I
finally like broke the seal and I went with it,
(21:49):
even though I was uncomfortable, and I invited two women,
Lisa and Rita, these influencers, the day before, just because
I thought to myself, you know, I'd flown in Laney
and been like, let me get you a hotel. It's
not going to be complete without you there, even just
for the night, and flew in these two women and
like itsa or one of them. I think she was
already coming, but offered to get her hotel and one
of them, who cares. I brought in some women who
(22:11):
are influencers who I knew would appreciate it. They were
such an addition. I loved it. It just it was extraordinary.
I had the best time ever. So if any of
you were there, I'm grateful. And if you weren't there,
you definitely missed out and you have a reason to
f fomo
Host
Bethenny Frankel
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