Speaker 1: So I went to a wedding this weekend, a bougie
Speaker 1: wedding in California. I was excited about this wedding to
Speaker 1: be perfectly transparent. When I was invited. It motivated my
Speaker 1: dating era because when I got the invitation aligned with
Speaker 1: when I started dating, and I was thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I just would love to have a great date for
Speaker 1: this particular wedding. It's going to be such a beautiful wedding.
Speaker 1: It's going to be so elite. But you don't want
Speaker 1: to bring the wrong date. You'd rather go alone, dare
Speaker 1: I say it? And maybe meet someone then bring the
Speaker 1: wrong date. But going to a wedding alone can be depressing.
Speaker 1: And it's not just going to the actual event alone,
Speaker 1: it's the whole weekend, like who's your partner, your wing person,
Speaker 1: your wingman, get the red to car, what's your hotel room? Like?
Speaker 1: What are you doing during the day? It makes you
Speaker 1: feel connected? Okay, So, but I was never going to
Speaker 1: just bring any date because I wouldn't disrespect the bride
Speaker 1: and groom because not everyone's invited with a date, and
Speaker 1: you know, a date has to have meaning, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would have gone without a date.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure I would have because I
Speaker 1: love the people, but like I was at a vulnerable
Speaker 1: place in my life. My mother had just passed away,
Speaker 1: gone through a breakup, Like I don't actually know. And
Speaker 1: this is going to be a cop out and sound elitist,
Speaker 1: but you know me, I'm always gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: As a public person, I do get approach at these
Speaker 1: types of events and there are hundreds of people and
Speaker 1: I sort of want a wing person, and I do
Speaker 1: believe that that's part of the reason I was invited
Speaker 1: with a date, because they know that everyone's going to
Speaker 1: be coming up to me, which they did anyway, not everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm not Madonna. I'm just saying there will be people
Speaker 1: that will come up to me, and it gives you
Speaker 1: like guardrails if you're talking to someone, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be like the whole entire time you're you know,
Speaker 1: doing a public appearance. And I don't know if that
Speaker 1: sounds bad, and I'm sorry if it does, but it's
Speaker 1: just my experience. No one wants to hear people complain
Speaker 1: about being known, and I'm certainly not I love my life,
Speaker 1: but it's just one of these things where when you're
Speaker 1: standing alone, people come up to you and ask you
Speaker 1: about things and talk to you about things, and talk
Speaker 1: to you about the show and the media and whatever.
Speaker 1: And so I went to the wedding and I did
Speaker 1: have a date. My personal life has become way more
Speaker 1: personal now I am not on TV. I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not compensated to share my personal life, and ironically, more
Speaker 1: for me than even the people that I am with,
Speaker 1: I'm more militant about it. It is so tempting when you
Speaker 1: really like or love someone to share it. It is
Speaker 1: so tempting you want to share it. You have oxytocin serotonin,
Speaker 1: you just are feeling happy, alive. That's the time you
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't share it, because the minute things get shared,
Speaker 1: whether you're public or even in your neighborhood, your community,
Speaker 1: everybody's business is in your business, and there's such a
Speaker 1: strength and power in keeping things private. So that's what
Speaker 1: I have attempted to do. And I will just say
Speaker 1: that I brought the right date, I had the best time,
Speaker 1: and we can get into the actual wedding. So this
Speaker 1: was a high profile wedding, a daughter of someone very
Speaker 1: high profile that I'm friends with, and it was in California.
Speaker 1: It was in Palm Springs, and they gave a bunch
Speaker 1: of different hotels. I stayed at the Lakinta Resort Hotel.
Speaker 1: Evidently there was another hotel that people were staying, and
Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't get that recommendation. I
Speaker 1: would have stayed at that fancy hotel. It was called Sente,
Speaker 1: I think, and it was like a cousin of the
Speaker 1: Nobu hotel that had a Nobu in it. Incidentally, I
Speaker 1: heard Megan Markle was at the bar and the person
Speaker 1: who said this to me said it was very low key.
Speaker 1: It was her and two girlfriends and no one was
Speaker 1: really you know, coming up to her or saying anything
Speaker 1: to them, and she and her girlfriends bought shots for
Speaker 1: the whole bar. That's the story that was told to me.
Speaker 1: It was told me a little more enhanced, but that's
Speaker 1: just a little incidental gossip. At the wedding I was at,
Speaker 1: Angelica Houston was there, which I was so funny because
Speaker 1: Angelica Houston looks like Angelica Houston, but she doesn't look
Speaker 1: like Angelica Houston, like you don't think it's her. She
Speaker 1: looks like someone who looks like Angelica Houston. So that
Speaker 1: was a funny moment and she was really sweet. Lauren
Speaker 1: Michaels was at the wedding. And this is iconic because
Speaker 1: I my internship story where I got an internship while
Speaker 1: at NYU to be to work at SNL. But and Y,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't give me the credit. So SNL said they
Speaker 1: couldn't give me the internship. It was my biggest regret
Speaker 1: and the me now would have pushed through. And I
Speaker 1: always tell him the same story, and I'm sure it's boring,
Speaker 1: but I know, Lauren. I've been to his house one
Speaker 1: time and he gave me I had a good advice
Speaker 1: just about being in this industry. And I went to
Speaker 1: dinner with him and some people one time and he
Speaker 1: told stories about different people who are on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: I never connected dot, I never read anyone out. But
Speaker 1: he was talking about specif Civic cast members and how
Speaker 1: it's important that you make an exit to be able
Speaker 1: to make an entrance. And years later I left reality
Speaker 1: television and assigned that to myself. I left reality television
Speaker 1: and came back at a drastically higher value, like you
Speaker 1: could astronomical stratospheric increase in salary and I literally only
Speaker 1: left for three seasons. But not until you leave, just
Speaker 1: someone see your value that could be in a relationship,
Speaker 1: that could be at a job. So don't be afraid
Speaker 1: to make courageous moves because you just don't know how
Speaker 1: it's going to end up. I've had people leave a
Speaker 1: job and then regretted it. I've left relationships and those
Speaker 1: people have really regretted it. I had one person go
Speaker 1: to therapy for ten years over our breakup and they
Speaker 1: just were flippant about the breakup at the time. So
Speaker 1: you just don't know, and you have to make an
Speaker 1: exit to be able to make an entrance. Lauren Michael's quote.
Speaker 1: I worked for him under a guy named Barnaby Thompson
Speaker 1: that was a producer for Lauren. I did not know
Speaker 1: that he's still he knows Lauren and that they're still friends.
Speaker 1: So much so that this producer, Barnaby Thompson, who lives
Speaker 1: in the UK, he was British, he is British, was
Speaker 1: British and moved I guess back to the UK. He
Speaker 1: was at this wedding. I was talking to his son
Speaker 1: all weekend just because he was like this tall, good
Speaker 1: looking guy that girls were after, and I was asking him,
Speaker 1: you know, did you get with that girl that was
Speaker 1: interested in you. This was like on the Saturday after
Speaker 1: the rehearsal dinner the night before, not knowing that he
Speaker 1: who I was talking to like he was a peer,
Speaker 1: is the son of my former boss. So my recollection
Speaker 1: of my job, which most of my recollections are correct,
Speaker 1: as we've proven in reunions and in housewives experiences, my
Speaker 1: recollection was that this guy Barnaby was like the apsmidy professor,
Speaker 1: and he was a little disorganized and like a little
Speaker 1: little scattered and scrambled, and he was a young man
Speaker 1: that I think he was married, but if he had kids,
Speaker 1: they were babies, well yeah, it was like thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: so they were babies literally because this kid was his
Speaker 1: child was thirty one. But I don't think of myself
Speaker 1: as someone who worked for someone who has now as
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old man that I son that
Speaker 1: I'm talking to as a peer. So anyway, I Barney,
Speaker 1: this man comes up to me at the wedding the Saturday,
Speaker 1: because Friday was the welcome dinner, and he's like Bethanye,
Speaker 1: I look at him and he's like, barnaby, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck like? And we were dying. He was
Speaker 1: so endearing and I said to him, I feel like
Speaker 1: I used to boss you around because I told that
Speaker 1: to Lauren Michaels and his wife and I always like
Speaker 1: for things to track. And he said, well, you were
Speaker 1: quite intimidy, which is so funny because I was always
Speaker 1: me because I was twenty five years old, you know,
Speaker 1: living in la and I was a temp I got
Speaker 1: the job through a temp agency and then I got
Speaker 1: it as a real job, and I was just fucking pushy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just was confident. He produced Black Sheep
Speaker 1: and Tommy Boy. I now am friends with David Spade.
Speaker 1: I forgot to tell him that, and I just like
Speaker 1: sort of jammed my way through making myself useful and
Speaker 1: decided to take over the planning of that premiere. And
Speaker 1: the same thing happened when I worked for Chris Blackwell,
Speaker 1: which was not really Chris Blackwell. It was another situation
Speaker 1: where I now say I worked for Lauren Michaels because
Speaker 1: I worked for the guy that worked for Lauren Michaels,
Speaker 1: and I now say that I worked for Chris Blackwell.
Speaker 1: The guy who created I founded On Island Records because
Speaker 1: I worked for Mark Berg, who worked for Chris Blackwell.
Speaker 1: And mark Berg wasn't who he is today either. Now
Speaker 1: he's the guy who managed Charlie Sheen and was a
Speaker 1: producer on Two and a half Men and the Saw movies,
Speaker 1: but then he was just Mark Berg. He'd worked in
Speaker 1: a couple of smaller movies. And I now say I
Speaker 1: worked for Jerry Brouckharimer, when I kind of did, but
Speaker 1: I really worked for Linda Bruckharmer, his wife. So it's
Speaker 1: like I technically worked for him, but I was really
Speaker 1: hired to work for the person under them. But I
Speaker 1: finagled my way into working for Chris Blackwell because I
Speaker 1: planned a party at his house up like on King's Road,
Speaker 1: and I forget what we were celebrating, but like I was,
Speaker 1: like pushed myself through. And later I worked for MERV
Speaker 1: Griffin indirectly because I produced events for a company that
Speaker 1: MERV Griffin Productions purchased. So anyway, Barnaby said that I
Speaker 1: was intimidating, and that made me laugh. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to the wedding. Friday night is the welcome dinner at
Speaker 1: this house? In an area called Okay, Okay. There's an
Speaker 1: area called the Madison Club. There's this guy who's a baller.
Speaker 1: I think his name is Michael Mellman. He's partners with
Speaker 1: Clooney and Randy Gerber in the Cosami Goes. He has
Speaker 1: this thing called the Discovery Club. It's like this investment
Speaker 1: real estate company that has these very elite, bougie as
Speaker 1: fuck developments like Yellowstone could be part of it, but
Speaker 1: definitely there's one in Cabo and there's one in Palm
Speaker 1: Springs called the Madison Club where Bieber and the Kardashians
Speaker 1: have homes, not far from like where Kyle etc. Have homes,
Speaker 1: but like, this is the elite one. This is the Rolls,
Speaker 1: Royce Colin and big major bag alert Like you are
Speaker 1: the not fucking around cro If you have a house
Speaker 1: in there, your house is thirty million dollars, fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's not a joke. For me. Palm Springs doesn't have water,
Speaker 1: and for me, I feel suffocated when I'm not by water,
Speaker 1: and I prefer I think Arizona because of the mystical aspect.
Speaker 1: But let's not talk about that. The guy on Friday Night,
Speaker 1: this is Raeli guy. I think we're allowed to say
Speaker 1: his name, Gala. He's a fucking g He's cool, he's handsome.
Speaker 1: His wife is pretty, she's cool. They have a house
Speaker 1: his design aesthetic, and I've read he's like sold houses
Speaker 1: into Holmby Hills and he's this build or whatever. The
Speaker 1: event Friday no cameras was held at his house, but
Speaker 1: you were allowed to have like a little bullshit camera
Speaker 1: and some people took pictures. They just probably didn't want,
Speaker 1: like it to be a free for all. His design
Speaker 1: aesthetic is triumphant, like I don't want it. I don't
Speaker 1: want a giant house. I don't want a thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand foot house. I don't I'm too OCD for that.
Speaker 1: But when I tell you to appreciate a person who
Speaker 1: has curated a real estate experience like this beyond chef's kiss.
Speaker 1: So that was Friday night, and my date and I,
Speaker 1: who have decided to go through a midlife crisis together,
Speaker 1: were the last ones to leave the party. He has
Speaker 1: my energy level. We had the best time ever. These
Speaker 1: kids were like the thirty year olds all there and
Speaker 1: we like we started dancing. I am kind of when
Speaker 1: I'm in the mood. The life of the party. I
Speaker 1: definitely am. There's music on, I don't care who's dancing.
Speaker 1: I'll start dancing. Other people start dancing. I'll talk to people.
Speaker 1: I'll have sixty cocktails. Let's give some name dropping. Scott's
Speaker 1: Sardiano who owns zero Bond and used to own Butter
Speaker 1: and own Sardiano's was there. Check who else was there? Gogozian,
Speaker 1: Gogosian Galleries, massive guy in the art world there. Some
Speaker 1: guy who ran Sports Illustrated was there. He's eighty years old.
Speaker 1: He was as cool as anyone I've ever met. My
Speaker 1: life long conversation with him. Some amazing, hot, sexy, interesting
Speaker 1: gaze were there. It just was like a good, interesting crowd.
Speaker 1: Alex and Steve Cohen who, by the way, shout out
Speaker 1: to them because my date pointed out to me they
Speaker 1: didn't make this entire weekend about them. It was a
Speaker 1: kid's wedding, meaning I'm calling kids thirty year olds like
Speaker 1: they had twenty five people there. Their friends I live
Speaker 1: for were all really good friends now and that's it.
Speaker 1: We were like a side side dish. Kids ordered what
Speaker 1: they want, ate what they want, designed how they wanted,
Speaker 1: had the party they wanted it's sexual. We were like guests,
Speaker 1: and I fucking shout them out because you know what
Speaker 1: happens with a lot of rich people. They want to
Speaker 1: make it their show, their rodeo. They want to get
Speaker 1: the talent they want, They want to show off. When
Speaker 1: you're Alex and Steve Colon, you don't need to show off.
Speaker 1: And they just they acted like anybody in any neighborhood
Speaker 1: whose kids were getting married. And that's a chef's kiss too.
Speaker 1: It happened to be at a sick place. But like
Speaker 1: they get the award for like understated they you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like they they just they were They
Speaker 1: were not like trying to like pull focus. They were
Speaker 1: not trying to get attention. They were parents of the
Speaker 1: bride and the bride in the groom of the stars,
Speaker 1: and the event was the star and that was amazing.
Speaker 1: Like they just had fun and were great, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into Saturday on the part two because the next
Speaker 1: and they didn't do a thousand activities like you have
Speaker 1: to go to everything. It was a choose your own eventure.
Speaker 1: Friday's a big party. Buckle up for Saturday. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be big, it's gonna be great. And then Saturday was
Speaker 1: the wedding and that was the main event. But like
Speaker 1: I was not sure what to expect. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if there would be pretense because so many such a
Speaker 1: you know, a wealthy families event, and I've been to
Speaker 1: those and it's like performative and show up. The It
Speaker 1: wasn't that at all, And like I didn't know what.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was gonna be stiff stuff stuff,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what it was going to be. Well,
Speaker 1: it was alive, it was free, it was appropriate, it
Speaker 1: was correct, and I had a great time and it
Speaker 1: felt like a family affair, felt like any other wedding
Speaker 1: in spirit, maybe not in location. But the truth is
Speaker 1: you could be at the Nights of Columbus Hall or
Speaker 1: a barbecue or you know, your backyard and have a
Speaker 1: great wedding. It's about the feeling, the alchemy, the combination
Speaker 1: of people, and this event had that. So Friday had
Speaker 1: a great time. Loved my date, my choice, my life,
Speaker 1: the family, the friends, the bride, the groom. Also, she
Speaker 1: didn't dress like forty two wardrobe changes, all this stupidity,
Speaker 1: like every night of six outfits like so stupid. She
Speaker 1: had a beautiful dress on the theme was mad Men's
Speaker 1: Sixties for the weekend. He looked handsome and that was it.
Speaker 1: Like they looked relaxed, natural, They looked like they're guests,
Speaker 1: but like elevated. But we all you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It was really I hate all this tentiousness now. So
Speaker 1: Friday night, welcome dinner, sickest house ever check. We'll get
Speaker 1: onto Saturday next and we'll get onto my whole entire
Speaker 1: weekend and laking To resort and we'll do a review
Speaker 1: of that too. You're welcome.