Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bruce. Thank you for joining us for
Speaker 1: another bonus episode of Table for two. Recently, I had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of sitting down with Andrea Bealaz the famous Hotelierra.
Speaker 1: We had cocktails at the world renowned Chateau Momon in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you to hear our full conversation next week,
Speaker 1: but today, enjoy another one of our fun lightning rounds.
Speaker 2: Okay, Andre's show. Okay, these are just like off the
Speaker 2: top of your head, you know, because people want to
Speaker 2: know these things about Andre Balaz. Favorite color, favorite color color,
Speaker 2: what's your favorite color blue?
Speaker 3: Without a question?
Speaker 2: Favorite movie?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like a.
Speaker 4: Book I view and read across read sweet books at
Speaker 4: the time, you because it depends on what I'm reading
Speaker 4: it for.
Speaker 3: Right, I read history to relax.
Speaker 4: Because there are much bigger calamities in the world than
Speaker 4: whatever I might hear. So I find it bizarre. But
Speaker 4: I'd read about war and.
Speaker 3: History and military strategy to relax. Okay, that's interesting because
Speaker 3: it's so different.
Speaker 4: It's like asking which is your favorite hotel or who's
Speaker 4: your favorite child.
Speaker 3: You can't answer that.
Speaker 4: You can describe the unique qualities of each sure, so
Speaker 4: I don't have a favorite ovity put.
Speaker 3: It that way, I had it.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how what I would answer with that.
Speaker 2: I think I would answer ordinary people for some reason,
Speaker 2: which is so depressing. And for some reason, I think
Speaker 2: for a favorite movie, it's like everything came together. I
Speaker 2: saw this movie is very powerful. I could remember walking
Speaker 2: out of a movie theater seventy first and or I
Speaker 2: was fifteen years old. It was starting to smell just
Speaker 2: everything sort of came Tim Hutton gave this performance. So like,
Speaker 2: I think, what makes things?
Speaker 4: I know what you're saying. It's the convergence of all
Speaker 4: of those things. But that is exactly why it's impossible
Speaker 4: for me to name the favorite book or favorite thing, because.
Speaker 3: It's where you were at that moment.
Speaker 4: It's the artistry of the people, a person who crafted it.
Speaker 3: It's the message, and there's artistry in so many things. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know all over.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you can talk about a masterful biography,
Speaker 4: you can talk about a masterful novel, you can talk
Speaker 4: about a masterful movie, but it's a work of art
Speaker 4: which is finite.
Speaker 2: Is there been a piece of advice that has been
Speaker 2: you know, the most sort of valuable to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, definitely. So I had a mentor when I was.
Speaker 4: Whose father it was a very old Boston Brahmin family,
Speaker 4: and when I was starting his biotech company, he was
Speaker 4: the only venture capitalist who invested in it. His great
Speaker 4: grandfather had been the head of Harvard Medical School, which
Speaker 4: in those days was probably more prestigious than being head
Speaker 4: of the president of the United States. And we're driving
Speaker 4: down to Johnson Johnson in his old beat up sab
Speaker 4: card that was deliberately very beat up, right, there.
Speaker 3: Was no ostentation whatsoever.
Speaker 4: And the day before we met this guy venture capitalist,
Speaker 4: and he was so flashy and so obnoxious, and I
Speaker 4: mean whether he did it or not, he fired someone on.
Speaker 3: The phone in front of us.
Speaker 4: He had his secretary bring in a tray of diamonds
Speaker 4: that he wanted to give his wife for his birthday,
Speaker 4: all in front of us, and said, that's asking this guy.
Speaker 4: On the way down to Johnson Johnson, he said, what
Speaker 4: was wrong with him?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 4: And he said, well, the problem is all he ever
Speaker 4: wanted to do is be rich, and the problem is
Speaker 4: he became rich and then he became an asshole because
Speaker 4: he had no other There was nothing else. So the
Speaker 4: best advice he gave me, his name was Walter. He said, Andre,
Speaker 4: just make sure you never achieve your dreams. Always dream
Speaker 4: big enough that you actually never achieved them, because once
Speaker 4: you achieved them, then you're in real trouble.
Speaker 2: That's very pressing. That's good advice. First thing you notice in.
Speaker 3: A man me this smile and their eyes. The first
Speaker 3: thing you notice in a woman their eyes and the
Speaker 3: way they handle their hair. Beach or ski skid.
Speaker 2: I was a hundred percent sure you were going to say.
Speaker 3: Beach No, not enough to do on the beach.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, there really is a drink rose that We've had.
Speaker 3: Enough water ski.
Speaker 1: New York, LA.
Speaker 4: It's a really tough one for the last thirty years. Honestly,
Speaker 4: it's been equal right now now. This is also London,
Speaker 4: and I have to say the triumvirate is they're all great.
Speaker 4: My biggest problem is that I love wherever I am.
Speaker 4: Some of the biggest trauma in my life is leaving.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: As we kind of conclude our cocktails, first of all,
Speaker 2: I thank you so much.
Speaker 3: It's been an utter pleasure.
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