Speaker 1: I went to Miami to visit my best friend Sarah,
Speaker 1: and I've been going to Miami my entire life. And
Speaker 1: Miami's amazing because like it's got culture and it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely multicultural, and it's it's like upscale and also extremely cheesy,
Speaker 1: which I love because, like I am, I have like
Speaker 1: a definite strain of cheese in me. I want to
Speaker 1: shout out the W Hotel because I stayed at the
Speaker 1: W Hotel in South Beach and sometimes I'm hesitant to
Speaker 1: be like a big hotel where it's like a zoo
Speaker 1: in the lobby and there's so many people and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And I got there, and first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm always reminded when I get there, like the gorgeous
Speaker 1: art and the design of the place. And this has
Speaker 1: been around for years a W. I remember when it open,
Speaker 1: it was like the coolest thing ever. And these places
Speaker 1: get busted up and tired, and the W has held
Speaker 1: up like they have held up so and they give
Speaker 1: you an upgrade if they have it, like they're not
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, just gatekeep rooms for no reason,
Speaker 1: Like they give you whatever they got. And they had
Speaker 1: this thing where when you were waiting to check in,
Speaker 1: you got to go upstairs to this penthouse because I
Speaker 1: guess the hotel was at one hundred percent occupancy, but
Speaker 1: they had not yet rented this penthouse, which is probably
Speaker 1: like twenty five thousand dollars a night or ten thousand
Speaker 1: a night. So while you're waiting for your room to
Speaker 1: check in, you get to go upstairs to this penthouse
Speaker 1: and there's all this food like cheese, salami, like you know, champagne,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, there's a beautiful like outdoor pool,
Speaker 1: and just people are on their computers. It's like a
Speaker 1: wee work, But like, how smart of them? What? Because
Speaker 1: otherwise you feel like a loser. You're just like walking
Speaker 1: to a hotel. Then you're like wandering, your bags are somewhere,
Speaker 1: you're walking through the lobe, you're trying to go to spa,
Speaker 1: you're outside, like you just hate that feeling. You've just
Speaker 1: gotten somewhere and you're waiting to get into your room
Speaker 1: to unpack. It was just so smart, and I feel
Speaker 1: like hotels don't do the basic thing that they should
Speaker 1: do that just makes it easier, Like even if it's
Speaker 1: not a fancy hotel, like a w just a shitty
Speaker 1: hotel to have like a shitty room that just like
Speaker 1: has some freaking cheese and crackers in there for people
Speaker 1: to wait until they check in. Just little things. It's
Speaker 1: like a warm bread basket in a restaurant. Doesn't take
Speaker 1: much extra to do, but to go the extra mile
Speaker 1: and do it makes a difference. So anyway, it was East.
Speaker 1: It was Easter weekend, which I didn't even think about.
Speaker 1: I forgot, and every hotel was packed, and this w
Speaker 1: maintained good food, good service, like it totally held up.
Speaker 1: And I filled out the survey and they gave you
Speaker 1: like your own personal person that was just gonna check
Speaker 1: in and be like do you need chairs by the beach?
Speaker 1: Do you need this? And I emailed them back at
Speaker 1: the end of the weekend, like with the survey and
Speaker 1: said it was honestly immaculate and peccable. I was impressed.
Speaker 1: It was great because people only ever tell the shit
Speaker 1: at a hotel, They only ever complain, and I find
Speaker 1: it to be the hardest business. And you know, I've
Speaker 1: been sort of in my social media journey reviewing different
Speaker 1: hotels and I'll be honest, like there's a hotel that
Speaker 1: I stayed in Sydney. It was gorgeous. It was the
Speaker 1: most beautiful hotel I'd ever been to. Its six star hotel,
Speaker 1: but like they would send fruit every day and the
Speaker 1: peaches were like were like hard rock hard and brown inside.
Speaker 1: And if no one says it, they're not gonna know.
Speaker 1: But I also don't want to be the one that's
Speaker 1: only gonna complain. I mentioned all the good things, but
Speaker 1: I also was gonna because people might spend their money
Speaker 1: and then go stay there because I said it. So
Speaker 1: I want on both ends, like people to know like
Speaker 1: what something is and from my perspective, like give a baseline.
Speaker 1: The Crown Hotel in Sydney was six stars and it
Speaker 1: was amazing. But not everybody wants a big, like transactional
Speaker 1: dobai like intimidating hotel experience. Some people, I think that's
Speaker 1: super impressive. Someone else might like intimate. I personally like
Speaker 1: an intimate, boutique hotel, which is why I was so
Speaker 1: shook by the fact that the w felt amazing and
Speaker 1: it was immaculate, like it was clean and it was
Speaker 1: the service was good and they had an ice machine
Speaker 1: in the hallway, which you know, I'm so fucking massive
Speaker 1: on an ice machine in the hallway, so that an
Speaker 1: upscale hotel like that would be smart enough to put
Speaker 1: an ice machine in the hallway, because usually really fancy
Speaker 1: hotels don't have that, and it's stupid. It's stupid. Six
Speaker 1: star hotels, five star hotels, every star hotel should have
Speaker 1: an ice machine in the hallway. It's less labor on
Speaker 1: your servers. The person feels like they have the liberation
Speaker 1: to have a cold drink whenever they want. It's just freedom.
Speaker 1: Ice is freedom, like require ice and a bathtub, And
Speaker 1: I will not stay somewhere again if it takes me
Speaker 1: forty five minutes to get a bucket of ice, which happens,
Speaker 1: and why hotels will bring ice in a non cooler situation,
Speaker 1: I'll never understand because you then have to ask for
Speaker 1: ice three times a day. Then it's a melting like
Speaker 1: plastic bag inside an ice bucket filled with water that
Speaker 1: has to be dealt with like put it in a small,
Speaker 1: cheap cooler. Ice can be there all day. Everyone deserves ice.
Speaker 1: It's an it should be ice. Some places just don't
Speaker 1: fuck around with ice, like Australia. You go to a
Speaker 1: place you like, can I get ice in this? They
Speaker 1: give you one ice cube, what's the problem. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's my ice rant that I didn't intend to do,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to say that the w deserves
Speaker 1: a shaf I went to hang with my friend. The
Speaker 1: pandemic was a time suck, was a time capsule. We
Speaker 1: did not spend any time together my best friend and I.
Speaker 1: It was like it was so insulating, which I already
Speaker 1: am isolating, and like it took a time to get
Speaker 1: back into it, like to come out and be like, wait,
Speaker 1: I have a best friend, and like we need to
Speaker 1: spend time together and we need to do stupid things
Speaker 1: because we need to laugh, because you have to have interaction,
Speaker 1: human interaction, you know, to live to like it's therapy,
Speaker 1: and I don't do it enough. And so spending a
Speaker 1: whole weekend with her, which I did in Vancouver and
Speaker 1: then now again, you know, we danced Friday night. We
Speaker 1: went to a place called the living Room inside the
Speaker 1: Fayena and the day before my assistant I said, can
Speaker 1: we just go there? Just get me on some sort
Speaker 1: of a list, and I didn't really show to buy
Speaker 1: a table. And so the person who we connected with
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know why, but this table's available.
Speaker 1: It's the day before and I don't know why this
Speaker 1: table is available, but you should take it because this
Speaker 1: amazing UH band is playing. So we take this table.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a scam that they were saying,
Speaker 1: but you should take it. We take this table. It
Speaker 1: is like the size of a living room in the
Speaker 1: center of the most popular place in South Beach. The
Speaker 1: living room. It's like very popular and like rich people
Speaker 1: there and influencers and like a lead and you can't
Speaker 1: get in and there's a rope and it's like glamorous
Speaker 1: and the food's amazing and there. Okay, so to the
Speaker 1: point where like I saw some billionaires that I know
Speaker 1: and they were sitting in the corner and my friend
Speaker 1: and I were center in the middle of this entire room,
Speaker 1: rope and stanchions all over us. We got some sort
Speaker 1: of last minute deal because someone must not have bought
Speaker 1: this table, which the takeaway and the messages for whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing, always give it a shot. It could be
Speaker 1: the hottest restaurant in New York City or France and Paris,
Speaker 1: like maybe someone just didn't show up or canceled at
Speaker 1: the last minute, or a hotel room. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but we were in like you could fit fifteen people
Speaker 1: in the two couches that are inside this it's called
Speaker 1: the living room, but we were in a living room
Speaker 1: within the living room. I felt like Madonna, you don't understand, like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm more known than I was years ago, like maybe
Speaker 1: because of social media, but more people come up to me.
Speaker 1: It's almost I almost am like the Emperor has no clothes.
Speaker 1: I'm almost embarrassed, like I feel like I'm fucking Madonna.
Speaker 1: Like fifty people will come up to a table and
Speaker 1: the security there, I'm sure some of them know who
Speaker 1: I am. They start, they get to know who I
Speaker 1: am pretty quickly because they're like, who the fuck why
Speaker 1: is this girl? Of all these people coming up to
Speaker 1: the table, But it felt like we were jay Z
Speaker 1: and Beyonce. I'm not kidding, Like who are these two
Speaker 1: bitches sitting at these two giant couches in this rope
Speaker 1: and stanchion like all on their own, and there are
Speaker 1: billionaires in the corner and like two tops, the six
Speaker 1: people on a two top table. It was so ego boosting,
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you. And then we and the next
Speaker 1: night to Casa Donna, it's a hot spot. The guy
Speaker 1: who owns it, his name is Dave Grutman. He owns
Speaker 1: the Live I'm sure you've heard about Live, that like
Speaker 1: place in the Fountain Blue that's like the hot club.
Speaker 1: And he owns Komodo, which is a Japanese restaurant. I
Speaker 1: think that area is called I think it's Brickle and
Speaker 1: it's like the hotspot and the food is great. And
Speaker 1: you know, we're at this place, Casa Donna, which is
Speaker 1: this gorgeous outdoor place and it's on the water and
Speaker 1: it's like big, and it's a vibe. And I think
Speaker 1: Andrea Agassi was there that night, and Shakira was there,
Speaker 1: you know, sitting at the next table from us, and
Speaker 1: like it was a vibe, right, And and this guy,
Speaker 1: Dave Grutman, they carry Forever Young, They carry my wine.
Speaker 1: It's on the menu. Made me feel like a baller
Speaker 1: and I thanked him for supporting us. And you know,
Speaker 1: this guy. There are some guys like this, like and
Speaker 1: there are different levels, but there are these like nightclub,
Speaker 1: empresario entertainment hospitality guys. These are the forward facing hospitality guys.
Speaker 1: They usually have a backer, like Noah and Jason were
Speaker 1: the two guys behind Marquis and Tao. But like Mark
Speaker 1: Packer was this guy that I know that you know
Speaker 1: he was the backer behind the two forward facing like
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna be there every night. It's a
Speaker 1: very hard thing to do the job that they do
Speaker 1: because you've got to be on all the time. You
Speaker 1: might have a wife, you might have a baby. They
Speaker 1: all happen to have wives and babies and girlfriends, but
Speaker 1: you've got to be the guy in the club or
Speaker 1: the restaurant till two o'clock in the morning, watching everything
Speaker 1: like a hawk. Because if you have Shakira and there
Speaker 1: Andrea Augusty, nothing can go wrong. Like you've got to
Speaker 1: be on the case. So my friend and I there
Speaker 1: before the grace of God. I don't know why. It
Speaker 1: was Saturday night. And just as an aside, the waitress,
Speaker 1: the server tells me, just like anecdotally, she said, this
Speaker 1: is the most covers we've ever had since we opened.
Speaker 1: Like I don't remember it was eight hundred tables or
Speaker 1: whatever the number was, but she was like, this is
Speaker 1: She complained for being like two minutes delayed on something
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice. She goes, I'm sorry, it's the
Speaker 1: most reservations we've ever had since we opened. Well and behold,
Speaker 1: my friend and I are at the best table, no exaggeration.
Speaker 1: The CEO of the Four Seasons at the table next
Speaker 1: to us were at this giant booth again like I'm
Speaker 1: jay Z and Beyonce, Like we just like got lucky
Speaker 1: this week. And I don't know why they gave us
Speaker 1: a table, like yes, he has my wine and the menu.
Speaker 1: There are a million wines, and there are like very
Speaker 1: famous people like rolling through there. The Kardashians roll through there.
Speaker 1: I'm sure j Loo's rolled through there. Like Dave Grutman
Speaker 1: doesn't fuck around with like celebrity, Like none of these
Speaker 1: guys do. It's Eugene and Mark that are the other
Speaker 1: duo that do this for catch restaurants. Like that's another duo,
Speaker 1: and Dave is in a duo. He seems like he's
Speaker 1: on his own. But what I'm getting too here is
Speaker 1: that I was sitting in this baller booth and yes,
Speaker 1: girls were coming up to me, and it started to
Speaker 1: be like a lot, and I felt guilty because he
Speaker 1: put security on my table. And several times he stood
Speaker 1: up from his table and walked up and was like
Speaker 1: girls just like, you know, she's eating, let her eat,
Speaker 1: et cetera, which was really kind. I felt tremendously guilty
Speaker 1: because I felt like, in this one case, there were
Speaker 1: these two girls and the one girl, you know, she
Speaker 1: actually sat down next to me, which was a little
Speaker 1: you know, she like sat down while we were eating,
Speaker 1: and she was like, oh my god, we love you
Speaker 1: and it was so nice and like I'm so grateful,
Speaker 1: and she was like, can we get a picture? And
Speaker 1: then Dave came up and he had put security on
Speaker 1: the table and they were like, just you know, she's
Speaker 1: eating dinner. And she was like, but you don't mind, right,
Speaker 1: And I was like no, because like I didn't mind,
Speaker 1: but then I'm gonna be sitting with like ten people
Speaker 1: at my table and then it's you know, uncomfortable with
Speaker 1: my friend and it's all about me and not my friends.
Speaker 1: And I felt sort of guilty, and I'll still I'll
Speaker 1: go into the box one day, like feeling guilty that
Speaker 1: the one girl got the picture and the other one didn't.
Speaker 1: And I ended up seeing her from a distance later
Speaker 1: and wanted to scream her name to like you get
Speaker 1: your picture, Like I felt badly. I genuinely did. It
Speaker 1: was not like my fault and nothing happened and the
Speaker 1: security guy said something and then they were gone. But
Speaker 1: I always feel guilty about something like that, like it's weird.
Speaker 1: Paul used to, you know, always say to me like
Speaker 1: like or he'll be I happen. Even recently he'll say,
Speaker 1: like you'll obsessed about it. Just take the picture because
Speaker 1: you're gonna obsessed about it and feel bad. Like someone
Speaker 1: comes up to me in the bathroom and then I
Speaker 1: don't get the picture because I feel weird because I'm
Speaker 1: like midstream peace basically or washing my hands, and like
Speaker 1: then I like hunt the airport and feel bad that
Speaker 1: I didn't take the picture. But anyway, there's that one
Speaker 1: girl that has blonde hair, and if you know, if
Speaker 1: if you're listening, I will get the picture with you
Speaker 1: one of these days because I still feel bad. But
Speaker 1: the point of the story is just to say that
Speaker 1: Dave Grutman, who's like made it. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: successful restaurants, and he works like it's the first day
Speaker 1: he was working. He works like as hard as I
Speaker 1: was working when I was like, you know, working on
Speaker 1: Save by the Bell, like fourteen hour days or as
Speaker 1: hard as I've ever worked any day, like you watch.
Speaker 1: I went up to him, I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you deserve your success, Like I'm watching you and you're
Speaker 1: on every table and it's not just the Shakira tables,
Speaker 1: Like he's just on what's going on in the room.
Speaker 1: Who's coming up to my table? What's going on? Is
Speaker 1: that food good? Was that cold? Was this server on
Speaker 1: the game? Was this like on time? Well, like just impossible.
Speaker 1: So just shout out to Casadana, which was very good
Speaker 1: in a beautiful restaurant that I had not been to.
Speaker 1: But shout out to Dave Grutman, because that guy straight
Speaker 1: hustles like the first day he ever worked. And the
Speaker 1: people that are really successful at every level, whether they
Speaker 1: are paupers or billionaires, they're working the same, like you
Speaker 1: do it or you don't, whatever job it is. Like
Speaker 1: I used to be the copy maker when I was
Speaker 1: a pa at saved by the Bell, and I made
Speaker 1: those copies like it was my life and whatever job
Speaker 1: you have, because I do find this day and age,
Speaker 1: people think that like things should come easy and they're
Speaker 1: a little entitled. Like the people that succeed are the
Speaker 1: ones that work their asses off, like just it's just
Speaker 1: who they are, like do it or don't. And what
Speaker 1: I noticed at that table and that's see, it was
Speaker 1: a Dave Grutman was doing it, and you know I was.
Speaker 1: I was impressed. And so we had a very very
Speaker 1: VIP weekend. I am you know, it's not they say
Speaker 1: the artist for the artist formerly known as I'm the
Speaker 1: artist currently known as jay Z and Beyonce, because I
Speaker 1: was a baller shot caller in Miami this weekend. So
Speaker 1: it was good, it was fun, and it was most
Speaker 1: importantly great to connect with my friend because you've got
Speaker 1: to connect with your own friends and just like take
Speaker 1: that time. It's not the same a group dinner with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, it's not the same. Just like
Speaker 1: talking and facetiming. You gotta like dance, get down and dirty, laugh,
Speaker 1: like be alone with them, not with the spouses, not
Speaker 1: with the boyfriends, not with the fiances. Just do it.
Speaker 1: And we did it and it was amazing. So shout out,
Speaker 1: I guess to Sarah too. She came and moved into
Speaker 1: my hotel for the weekend. I was really find and
Speaker 1: nice