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I lay it all out with Kenny Santucci, the guy your trainer's trainer calls, who spent three years training Jon Bon Jovi and built out his home gym. We get into the bicep that came off the bone mid workout, calling his own doctor at 10pm, and why his Canadian friend is flying to America to pay out of pocket instead of waiting 16 weeks to be seen. He breaks down why gym owners keep fighting over the same six people, how gyms keep raising prices while trainers get paid a flat hourly rate, and Strong New York, his 5,000 person fitness party with saunas, cold plunges and a whole street shut down. There's also the open casting call that put him on The Challenge at 20 years old, lunch at Johnny Bananas' house, and how the MTV guys ended up in Buffalo asking me where to eat. Chapters 00:11 – Kenny Santucci and Strong New York, New York City's largest annual fitness and wellness festival 02:15 – American vs Canadian healthcare and the 16-week wait for surgery 06:00 – Getting into the gym at 230 pounds because Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Hulk Hogan all did 07:33 – Twelve jobs before 16, and Madi's borderline lesbian rugby summer 08:11 – Why he could retire off OnlyFans but won't 10:44 – Why the Buffalo Bills are the only true New York team 13:28 – Rebranding a mobile sauna company into Buffalo's biggest TV feature 14:47 – Inside Strong New York, 5,000 people and 100 activations built by a team of 12 17:19 – Training Jon Bon Jovi, who almost bought the Buffalo Bills?? 18:09 – Why trainers now out-earn finance guys, and the yacht video that landed Kim Kardashian's trainer 20:49 – Why exercise beats every peptide and biohack 24:13 – Where to get the best cocktails and steak in NYC 28:12 – Madi's death row cheeseburger and no fast food in 11 years 32:09 – Why a strong back beats legs and ass 37:20 – Her SIBO nightmare and refusing the surgery that leaves most with a colostomy bag 42:00 – Buying what he sells with four gym memberships 48:00 – Getting cast on The Challenge at 20 and staying tight with Johnny Bananas Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm unpacking the fitness industry with Bobby Westside, a New York City trainer who built his own platform for finding trainers after five years inside Barry's. We get into why the now hiring sign never comes down, what a client pays versus what a trainer takes home, and the nine minute video about Barry's banning coaches from working anywhere else, half a million views, everyone still there furious. He breaks down Hyrox taking over, muscle working like a pyramid scheme, lifting heavy over hot yoga, cold plunges as hangover care, and the Ozempic conversation nobody says out loud. Then it turns into my first Hinge date and the man who unpacked gum, drugs, and a vape onto the table, why sex is easy and connection is hard, and a death row meal that is somehow a 20 piece McNugget. Chapters 00:12 – Bobby Westside and Adonis, his fitness platform for clients to find and hire their own personal trainer 02:15 – Why every gym is always hiring, and how underpaid the trainers actually are 04:07 – Leaving investment banking because he's not made for taking orders 05:57 – Sex is easy and connection is hard, plus Madi's Buffalo Food Prude era 07:37 – Madi's first ever Hinge date and four hours with the guy who laid out drugs, and a vape like Inspector Gadget 09:57 – Losing the friends to lovers pipeline and bringing back the sloppy makeout 10:56 – The sober wellness event Madi wants to build her next chapter around 12:28 – Going mega viral off the Barry's non-compete callout, and why resistance training is a pyramid scheme 15:07 – Why no supplement beats consistency, plus the KA-EX cortisol reducer he swears by 19:00 – GLPs starting as a diabetic drug and Viagra starting as a fix for period cramps, both pivoting on a side effect 20:16 – The addiction to skinny in New York, and Fat Girl Fall for clients who are too thin 23:00 – Over-optimizing with Oura Rings and eight sleeps, and the green party where the whole elevator went home together 26:26 – The Hamptons wrestling costume dinner that got them into it with the locals 28:00 – Mary Lou's and the 28 and over crowd at Montauk, and why Surf Lodge has a type 30:04 – MapQuest, LimeWire, and ranking your friends on MySpace top eight 39:26 – Death row meals, the 20 piece McNugget and Popeye's with caviar bumps at Surf Lodge 42:44 – The Vegas conspiracy theory, adult Disneyland the mob built to launder money with bodies buried under the ferris wheel Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm recapping the Buffalo trip that was supposed to be five days and turned into two and a half weeks because the events kept selling out. Wings and Wisdom with Wingnutz, the new sauce drop, and a wellness event that sold out in 36 minutes and landed the brand on Daytime Buffalo. I get into the Chestnut Hill rebrand shoot with 22 creators, the new Gerties contract, filming a TV pilot and getting offered a Hallmark movie, and walking into the new Bills stadium on a morning I got to sleep in because I'm officially not with Gameday anymore. Plus Imperial Pizza for a small army, taking Grandma Rose to Chefs in a tennis skirt, and three miles of gas left on a fogged out road where every horror movie gets filmed. 00:16 – The Buffalo trip that stretched to two and a half weeks because the creator events kept selling out 01:54 – Cracking open Jay Shetty's Juni sparkling drink live 04:11 – Almost running out of gas in the middle of nowhere on the drive home with Melinda, dodging deer and beavers 04:56 – Ordering Imperial Pizza for 12 and getting enough for the zombie apocalypse 05:57 – Taking Grandma Rose to Chef's for her birthday and the liver her own mother used to make the sauce for 09:16 – The Reserve content dinner with Chef Darien after his Next Level Chef win 13:10 – Landing the Chestnut Hill golf course rebrand, and Just the Golfer teaching anyone who wants to play 18:31 – The Wings and Wisdom event dropping Buffalo Midnight Heat sauce 20:23 – Filming a TV pilot trivia show and getting pulled aside about Hallmark movies 25:07 – The Gertie's rebrand, and wait, Madi's engaged again??? 26:41 – Black Smoke's rooftop in Hamburg, the Toronto kidnapping to Matty Matheson's Prime Seafood Palace, and the wing tours in between 27:59 – Walking the new Bills stadium with her parents, the Buffalo tribute license plates, and no longer working with Gameday Hospitality 33:00 – The Western New York Heat Retreat event with a mobile sauna selling out in 36 minutes and landing them on Daytime Buffalo Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm breaking down the tumor I got diagnosed with out of nowhere after months of ovulation pain I kept writing off as normal girl stuff. Hot flashes, throwing up in the worst public bathroom in New York City, and the Brooklyn walk-in clinic that found it in about four seconds. I get into why I put the appointment off for so long, health insurance in America being what it is, the SIBO surgery I turned down years ago and healed without, finding a surgeon in Buffalo, and all the women who booked their own gyno appointments after I posted about this. Also in here: a birthday weekend in the city, a seafood tower and dirty martinis in Alphabet City, flirting with Engine 28, and a finger sliced to the bone before breakfast. Chapters 00:14 – The three months of pain Madi wrote off as bad ovulation before finding out it was something serious 04:00 – The Storytime app for creators, dodging a tornado for free sushi, and the seafood tower that felt like a Russian mob spot 05:57 – The always a John trick that turned strangers into her closest college friends 09:57 – Flirting with FDNY Engine 28, the nerdy fireman named Nick, and the neighbors who pulled her into their peach garden 12:57 – The subway ride home where the pain came back twice in one night and she was clearing out her purse to throw up 14:00 – Why Madi put it off for years, being quoted 750 a month for insurance as a healthy young woman, and saving 30k by skipping it 15:00 – Laney slicing her finger to the bone making birthday breakfast, and Madi finally walking into a Brooklyn OBGYN alone 18:00 – The ultrasound clicking away on her left side, the grapefruit sized tumor diagnosis, and asking if they could just freeze it instead of surgery 19:39 – Opting out of gut surgery years ago when 76 percent end up with a colostomy bag, healing SIBO holistically, and mistaking the tumor for a softball of shit 21:38 – Why she went public, the flood of DMs from women who booked their own appointments, and the awareness message about excruciating period pain 23:14 – The 150 messages back, wanting to see the thing sliced open on a table, and getting the surgery in Buffalo where her family can spoil her Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I walk you through the world of Tyler Jackowski, a Boston teacher who started making classroom content during COVID just to make people laugh and ended up with millions of followers, a White House invite from Jill Biden, and brand deals with Dunkin, Puma, Adobe, and Uber. We get into painting walls at a Catholic school before he ever had a classroom, quitting teaching entirely, what his RPM looked like when Tiktok got shut down for 18 hours and why it never recovered, how he negotiated with brands who wanted him to read scripts, and the Classroom Horror Stories series he built on Youtube and Spotify where people from around the world send in their wildest stories. We also get into management, platform diversification, and why Youtube pays him 27 times more per thousand views than Tiktok ever did. Chapters 00:13 – Tyler Jakowski the viral teacher gone full creator, getting his Boston accent smacked out of him by English professors, and bonding over Josh Allen 03:52 –Teaching Science as an English major 06:36 – Why TikTok creators blew up filling the COVID entertainment gap, and both refusing to do the copper water bottle influencer bit 10:31 – Meeting at the White House to talk education reform with Jill Biden, and both being repped by Rewired Talent with Evan and Justin 14:09 – Everyone using Instagram to promote TikTok on the Virgin Voyages cruise, why social media is still in its infancy, and the L'Oreal white labeling play  19:00 – The precise script brands that tank at 15,000 views, and the Dunkin deal he rolled out organically that hit 5 million and a 700 percent click bump 21:50 – The RPM reality nobody talks about, TikTok cratering to 5 cents after the shutdown while YouTube pays 27 dollars and Spotify 32 25:44 – Classroom Horror Stories as his baby, the Gorilla Glue kid whose nipples came off inside his shirt, and Madi peeing her pants at elemntary school 31:39 – The ice cream Robin Hood socialism story a teacher still uses, Madi's sold out COVID clothing line feeding essential workers, and the 103 year restaurant rebrand 33:27 – Filming his podcast at Brownstone Social Club to lift good people up, marathon fundraising for Release Recovery, and getting into the Summer House orbit 40:57 – Breaking down the Kyle and Amanda / West and Ciara Summer House mess, and Bravo milking a seven part reunion 46:07 – Carl Radke stopping his own award speech to congratulate the engagement, and Madi's SIBO years of no drinking before mocktails existed 50:21 – The identical drinking order down to the blue cheese olive martini, worshipping Gallagher's Steakhouse, and shooting Cypriot zivania 54:09 – His father in law and fiance opening Pixida Estiatorio on Fifth Ave, being a personal chef in a past life, and the sobbing little girl who found him in Cyprus 1:00:00 – Turning down McDonald's at 25k followers with no fast food in 11 years, the pasta bathtub feet offer Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm hanging out with Zach Zucker, the clown school trained performer who swears he's not a comedian, to talk feet pics at the Edinburgh Fringe, sugar daddy sites, and why he thinks he's funnier than every comic doing crowd work in jeans and a t-shirt. We get into the crowd work epidemic, why comedy clubs feel predatorial, getting fired by his agents in 2021, and how playing the internet game blew up a career he'd already spent a decade building overseas. Zach breaks down 10 years of Stamptown, his absurdist variety show turned Netflix special dropping the same day this episode does, August 25th. There's opening for David Cross, the Baha Men joke that changed his life, being told he's "not brand safe" for sponsors, life as a strategically nomadic performer, and a $400 pasta offer that's still on the table. Chapters 00:11 – Zach Zucker in the building, why comedy is a curse he can't quit, and roasting the standup comedy crowd work epidemic 02:22 – Not identifying as a comedian after French clown school, why comedy clubs feel predatorial, and only ever going on stage in costume 03:49 – The sugar daddy dot com college phase, the $200 feet pic at Edinburgh Fringe, and the pasta bathtub offer he'd do for way less 05:58 – Standup character not standup, building a cult following with his partner Vigo from Norway, and getting fired by his agents in 2021 07:31 – Two years of being deeply unfunny at clown school and why it's every Jewish parent's nightmare 08:26 – Why the digital side feels like a slot machine on your brain, handing social off to a team, and refusing to be a five types of coffee creator 11:04 – Opening for David Cross, calling Sam Campbell the best working artist, and drawing inspiration from musicians and painters over comics 14:24 – Strategically nomadic out of Echo Park, the Gotham LA studio plan three years out, and both being beach people who hate the cold 16:01 – Reverse engineering fame overseas before America, wanting out of the country at all times, and dodging the Berlin sex club scene 19:42 – Ten years at the Edinburgh Fringe, the world's third biggest ticketed event, and cursing out the Scottish landlords 21:14 – The Isle of Skye dinosaur bones and treeless highlands, scurvy season on Scottish festival food, and why Kevin Hart is somehow always ripped 24:56 – Starting Stamptown in 2016, turning down bad deals waiting for better, and both being college dropouts who chose money over class 27:46 – Being told he's not brand safe, the audio and suitcase companies he'd actually rep, and being a proud billboard of collaboration 31:48 – The Baha Men having 19 members 35:00 – Never dreaming he'd run a circus production company, begging people to watch the Stamptown special so Netflix greenlights more Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm taking you through a week that somehow had finance bros, a $1,000 happy hour tab, the Knicks playoffs, and me pouring shots on top of a bar for the American Whiskey rebrand. I also went on set for an NBC show with Kelsey Grammer, who apparently fell in love twice in Buffalo, ended up at a 35-person private premiere for Nina Dobrev's new movie with Andrew Garfield in the room, and got into the chaos of being late to my own recording because World Cup traffic tripled the city overnight. On top of all that, I'm hosting my first ever travel trip and oh! The curly hair debuted at Governor's Ball and apparently that was the move all along. Chapters 00:12 – Studio booked and busy for summer, the Surf Lodge trip with Neutrogena and Nylon, and the finance bros happy hour that ran up a thousand dollar tab 04:26 – The Chef's 103 year old rebrand going crazy, personally answering every missed tag, and the couple's Toy Story pasta video that hit 600k 04:44 – The first billboard project happening, the hands behind the back pasta shot for Wegmans and Topps, and the frozen sauce line coming out 05:19 – Hot girl summer and still single after a year, why one night stands aren't the vibe, and needing to actually know someone first 07:02 – Meeting Kelsey Grammer on the Hunting set, and Nina's 35 person premiere with Spider-Man there 08:26 – The San Diego trip where the boys were booked and busy, getting blocked from an event over bad blood, and people assuming she owns the company 09:22 – Nobody knowing about trial reels, asking listeners what they actually want, and being late for Jackie Cruz during World Cup traffic 11:03 – Beefing with a guy who said get off the bar, the New York Post number on Knicks hospitality money, and losing just means more watch parties 11:48 – Curling the hair crazy for hot girl summer, Governors Ball being the moment, and boys finally looking 12:28 – Announcing the first ever Travel with Madeline Hall, the Costa Rica, Aruba, Italy, and Colombia shortlist, and a beachfront villa with Pilates and business mentorship 17:02 – Pulling back from the football space a little, why tailgates are full of drunk handshakes that fall through, and Caitlyn Gentry planting the travel seed Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm reuniting with one of my college besties, Lauren B., who pulled up to the studio with her own list of questions and flipped the whole interview on me, Call Her Daddy style, one plead the fifth allowed. We're rehashing the Buff State era, $1.50 drink nights at Coles, $22 UV Blue fishbowls, a fake ID saved by a hand drawn mole, the wine t**s Halloween costume that racked up $950 in bar crawl winnings, and 17 people packed into a minivan for a Bills game. Then it gets juicy, a secret Sabres star hookup, Bills players sliding into the DMs right after draft day, and the unhinged "suck your way to the top" message that sent Papa Hall on a LinkedIn manhunt. These days Lauren's doing nonprofit work with foster kids and marketing consulting, her husband fully converted to Bills Mafia, and we trade the trial reels and tagging tricks every new content creator should be stealing. Chapters 00:15 – Lauren the college best friend, meeting Madi through James Webb next door, and the study abroad she rushed a sorority right before 03:09 – Madi taking Lauren to her first Bills game in the dying minivan, dumping a wing basket down the borrowed white jersey at O'Neill's 07:31 – Getting the whole family high on a two gram blunt camping in Allegany, and Dad's meat and cheese burrito camp trick 10:56 – Six years of the wine t**s costume, Dollar Tree bras full of red and white, pouring free drinks and cleaning up on Chippewa bar crawls 14:52 – The butch rugby player fake ID with a drawn on mole, the JP's binder of borrowed IDs, and dollar wings at Bullies 16:30 – Why the sorority pulled Madi out of her shell, Buff State parties busting at 100 people while Dayton has permanent beer pong tables 18:35 – Wanting real PDA after two long distance relationships, drunk workout runs home from Coles, and Lauren passing out on the porch every time 22:08 – Reading back the journals she's kept since 14, the basement flood that ruined one, and Lauren flipping the mic to interview Madi 29:03 – Madi's favorite thing about Buffalo being community, the Brooklyn bar that went Bills and jumped sales 36 percent, and trial reels advice 33:39 – The Barbizon modeling scam that only taught which fork to use, three years of free marketing, and the clothing line that funded meals during COVID 40:22 – The 6am you sucked your way to the top DM, Papa Hall hunting the guy down on LinkedIn, and Lainey messaging his mom and wife 43:22 – Hooking up with a Sabres star at Coles with no clue who he was, why Madi won't date football players, and the bathtub pasta DM 45:07 – The big nose theory, the size 14 feet letdown, and swearing off spontaneous hookups because she needs real attraction 47:20 – Chelsea Handler and Will Ferrell as dream guests, learning to clap back on the mic, and getting told she talks a lot on her own podcast 50:30 – Never moving back but keeping Buffalo ties, Buffalo Foodslut hitting 14k after the rebrand, and businesses taking her more seriously post New York 1:04:20 – The Elmwood hippie houses gentrified into condos, scaring the 24 hour pizza guy into a tomato sauce disaster, and the Scotland trip that ended her engagement Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I roll with Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand, a producer, writer, comedian, and mom who has spent the last three years producing animated content for Mattel, including Barbie and Polly Pocket, and a stop motion Frozen series for Disney that won a Telly Award. We get into how she started her production company in 2011 after dude producers kept withholding her footage, how she sold a COVID-era comedy special called Shelf Life to Amazon that earned three New York Emmy nominations, and what it actually looks like to be a female producer pitching TV shows in NYC. We also get into why Broadway people do coke, casting for The Bachelor, going on a complete stranger's honeymoon through Southeast Asia, almost getting eaten by a crocodile in Georgia, and the sketch she has going viral right now about a speech therapist who treats vocal fry. 00:08 – Lindsay Hand the producer, writer, comedian, and mom, meeting Madi at Governors Ball, and the Flagler theater kids who froze her out 02:16 – The dude producers who wouldn't hand over her footage, buying a book and starting a company at City Hall, and breaking even on play two 04:48 – Pivoting to sketch for Funny or Die, making Gianmarco Soresi famous by pushing him into stand up, and Shelf Life selling to Amazon 05:35 – Shooting a comedy special outside with masked audiences right before the 2020 election, and NPR calling it the best of the year 08:20 – Almost eaten by an alligator at 10 in the canoe with her mom, and the therapist who called her an attach instead of an avoid 10:31 – Wanting to meet a ghost for a little Q and A, the zombie dreams that won't die, and becoming one with the alligator in her sleep 13:00 – The four shot Americano debate, Madi chain smoking her first cigarette fetal in the shower, and faking coke to turn a boyfriend on 16:03 – Never aging in your soul and raving at the Edge till 3am, plus Madi's little sister pulling seven numbers a night while she gets none 18:03 – Meeting husband JL at a birthday party her friend dragged her to, calling dibs in the bathroom, and him saying yes because of a Jim Carrey movie 21:15 – Three years producing Barbie and Disney Princess for Mattel 23:24 – Mapping whole animated seasons as a creative producer, the three Emmy noms for Shelf Life, and gold at the Tellys for a Frozen stop motion 28:00 – Moving to New York in 2009 with a month free above two Indian restaurants, the illegal third bedroom, and getting grounded over a Facebook status 31:08 – The leather lady aunt who forced her to get a website in three months, and Madi telling a chef his Instagram gives cafeteria vibes 33:00 – The 350 dollar consulting flyer for everyone who wants to pick Madi's brain, and why Lindsay keeps off LinkedIn to protect her connections 36:00 – Southern hospitality with decorum, LinkedIn making people see Madi as an entrepreneur first, and trading brand deals with Chef Darian 38:34 – The actor blacklist for canceling the day before a shoot, and Madi warning a flaky friend he's one strike from dead 41:52 – What casting really means by stir the pot, why is there a mean girl in every reality show 44:33 – The vocal fry speech therapist sketch going viral, short films off to festivals, and the Thailand trip to see her mother in law's cooking 46:41 – The Thailand honeymoon she crashed after one drunk invite, a month riding the Mae Hong Son Loop, and swearing the newlyweds were swingers Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I lay it all out on the most unhinged, completely unplanned 4th of July that started with a Hampton invite getting pulled two nights before and ended with us on a stranger's boat to Montauk. Me, Lindsay, and our new friend Kim, a Googler from Chelsea we literally just met, pack into my car with my cat Winnie and say Connecticut, question mark. We end up in New Haven for tapas and pool, a beach bar in Fairfield where a Brazilian man told me I was God's gift to earth and then immediately said way too much, and Mystic for oysters, a treehouse bar, and award winning ice cream. Then Lindsay runs into a guy in the bathroom who invites us to Montauk the next day on his family's boat and we obviously say yes. We cruise through the Hamptons, hit Montauk Brewery, and spend the whole next day with John's family and his crew of Stockholm boys who flew in for the weekend. We book an extra hotel night, do karaoke until 2am, and drive back to NYC at 5 in the morning because why not. Winnie loved it. 00:12 – The Hamptons trip that fell apart two nights out when the price doubled and the bedroom became a basement air mattress 02:15 – Emily's Connecticut pitch and booking a random hotel in Branford 04:17 – My cat, Winnie coming along after a dream, the 104 degree day trip, and discovering Yale is that close to NYC 05:26 – The New Haven tapas and tequila spot, cast iron mac and cheese, and the gay guys at the bar who handed over the whole itinerary 06:36 – The Pavilion being Sunset Beach Club and Mickey Ratz to a T, the parking note left on the windshield, and finding out Connecticut has Guidos 07:31 – The Brazilian man with the God's gift to earth compliment over the polka dot top, the beach makeout, and the two cops who caught themselves mid story 10:35 – The freckles and licking lines that killed it, offering the steak dinner or picnic option, and the love bombing that stopped cold after Mystic 13:22 – Mystic on the 4th of July, the family at Red 36 whose every suggestion got taken, and running into them again up in the tree house 16:01 – Bravo Bravo's lobster pasta and another blue cheese olive martini, Drawbridge ice cream, and Lindsay clocking the one single guy in THE BATHROOM 17:34 – Manifesting a boat and getting a 60 year old creeper, then John's family welcoming everyone aboard like lifelong friends 20:23 – Montauk Brewery's 40 million dollar sale, finally seeing Surf Lodge and the Neutrogena party Lindsay had turned down, and the extra hotel night 20:48 – Burgers at John's house, karaoke butchering a Britney duet, and the 5am drive back to the city 23:39 – The Stockholm crew and the red eye trip already being planned, plus the whole point being talk to strangers and shoot your shot Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm spilling tea with Laurie Cooper, a New York real estate icon at Douglas Elliman with over 40 years selling the city and a viral following telling single girls exactly where to go. We get into why Wall Street bars five to seven are full of married men having a drink, the Regency on Park Avenue being a notorious pickup bar straight off the New York Housewives, and how selling Dorinda Medley her apartment put her on the show. She takes us back to the 80s clubbing era, Maxime's, the Breakers when it was formal dining and dancing, and Capri 29 summers in a row. Then the real estate side, condos as the investment play, what $500k can actually buy in Manhattan, three bedroom rents going $10k to $18k, and dating rules: mama's boys make good husbands, he needs a path, and stop asking what someone does for work in the first five minutes. Chapters 00:06 – Laurie Cooper the icon, meeting through Syndicate, being famous in Australia, and the fan recovering from cancer who follows her list 04:00 – The Today Show with Jenna Bush and September bar time, the New York Times half page that credited Laurie for saving liquor sales, and her rule that staying home gets you nowhere 06:18 – West Village bars for single girls, Sirens and the beautiful tall thirty year olds, and hunting down a hand stuffed blue cheese olive martini 09:15 – East Village dollar oysters and six dollar margaritas, three bars for 35 bucks a head, and the rainy day move of a hotel bar full of travelers 14:00 – Why New York beats the suburbs in a snowstorm, the seven bodegas on one block, and the 35 dollar coffee and croissants that show how wild the prices got 14:46 – Where the priciest real estate in Manhattan is and why, buying a condo on 500k and renting it out, and rents climbing under the stabilization squeeze 20:53 – Why Florida is boring and New York has the pulse, the Breakers in its formal long sleeve dinner dancing era, and Laurie shopping Capri 29 summers running 26:19 – Why so many New York women are single, the friend who bails without a black car, and looking for a man with a path over a gold digger checklist 28:37 – Mama's boys make good husbands, Madi doing her 30s in New York like Sex and the City, and hitting Wall Street on weekends because five to seven is married men 31:13 – Madi getting picked up by Gotham two weeks into New York, the celebrity clients Laurie keeps quiet, and the mink coat closing that fell through on title 36:00 – Why asking what you do in the first two minutes is repulsive, the Regency pickup bar sting on a married man, and Laurie's RHONY turn with Dorinda Medley 39:53 – Being real in real estate and never wasting a buyer's time, calling out agents who show buyers the wrong listings, and 40 years of knowing every apartment in a building 42:44 – Listen more than you talk on a date, give the unattractive charming guy a chance, and banging on the wall to cry it out like Laurie's mother taught her 46:32 – Madi's two long relationships at seven and five years that Laurie calls wasted time, wanting burly men over metro SoHo guys, and dressing up because a hoodie won't cut it 49:52 – Laurie's closing pep talk, cut the jealous friends, never roll up to a bar in a big pack, and take advantage because there are guys everywhere Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Catch me yap same time next week, cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I run you through a conversation with one of my closest friends, Lauren Carducci, who's now running social media for real estate professionals and managing her own real estate clients in Buffalo. We get into the tagging strategy that builds brand relationships before you need them, the Instagram caption hack that puts your content in front of more people, charity DMs that don't land and why, imposter syndrome, Buffalo Foodslut vs Madeline Hall rates and why that gap matters, Seneca One as THE ACTUAL networking capital of Buffalo, and 43 North giving out million dollar grants to startups. Also, her death row meal sounds unreal and we both got hungry on mic. Chapters 00:05 – Lauren Carducci on five years of friendship with Madi and building a clothing line before running social for other people 04:04 – Editing on the treadmill like a psychopath, why Instagram is pushing edits, and the CapCut caption trick that keeps your SEO 10:22 – Three years of free marketing five nights a week, why an influencer without a product is an empty supermarket, and Madi's FDA approved hot sauce 12:07 – Advice to the next wave of Buffalo creators, asking for the gift card or the fifty bucks, and why it takes 22 touches now to earn a follow 14:31 – Please stop sending ChatGPT DMs, the 18 handwritten letters for the Chef's rebrand, and teaching your AI to sound like you 17:25 – The discovery call that bumps the contract 30 percent, why everyone still thinks Madi's just a food blogger, and the Buffalo Foodslut rebrand jump to 13.4k 21:00 – Being the vibe curator at her own parties, the New York night with 17 countries in the apartment, and Caprice becoming a client years after that missed banger 27:52 – Rejection is redirection, the 300k proposal that came back as 0.5 percent equity, and why their industry is never plug and play 34:00 – Airplane mode in a secret spot, Kylie Jenner peptide drink and the Mama Mads vitamin habit, and pouring the other person's water first 39:00 – The two daisies that grow too tall getting cut back, killing food blogger haters with kindness, and Let Them by Mel Robbins 41:06 – Flicking the imposter syndrome switch, corporate Madi freezing up on the Bills movie script, and learning to tell your story with the red heels detail 47:50 – Imperial Pizza and the cup and char chip that hit 150k views, the death row tomahawk with king crab, and running Wayan back in SoHo 51:17 – Where to network in Buffalo, 43 North and the million dollar grants, and the Seneca One redemption story after its foreclosure 55:16 – Be yourself because there's only one you, why every business needs the accounts even dormant, and the SEO game of owning four pages of Google Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I go virtual for the first time with Micah Hyde, retired Buffalo Bills safety and founder of Hyde's Hail Mary, the THC shandy actually brewed in Buffalo. We get into draft day ending with golf clubs at the bottom of a country club pond, building the best safety duo in the league with Jordan Poyer, the neck surgery that ended his career, and why active NFL players still can't promote THC products. There's Bills Mafia donating $72k to a blind school because the refs were blind, his charity softball game going sold out with 16,000 fans and over $700k raised, Bar-Bill painting sauce onto wings one by one, baby Milly arriving weeks before we recorded, and the five year plan to become the official hemp beverage of football, stadiums included. Chapters 00:27 – Micah Hyde on his first virtual with Madi, and his newborn "Milly" 02:56 – Why Bills Mafia tailgates go the hardest, jumping through fire tables, and breaking 17 records across three sports back home 06:39 – Picking Big Ten over the MAC, Ohio State not caring about him, and getting the Green Bay call on hole 12 before chucking clubs in the pond 09:19 – How Hyde's Hail Mary started, turning his brain off after football, and why California THC drinks tasted like dirt 13:36 – Eric Wood and Spencer Brown messages, the charity softball game that grew to 700k raised, and the refs are blind blind school donation 16:01 – Seven years with Jordan Poyer, both kicking the door down with five picks each, and speaking best safety tandem into existence 20:01 – The Cabo girls trip with Josh Allen's mom, growing up in a village in Fostoria, and why small town Bills fans are everywhere 27:52 – The Heather Shaw Bills pay the bills clip that popped off, getting found by the studio two weeks into New York, and the Bills jacket engagement bump 37:00 – Studying Poppi and Alex Earl's 2.3 billion Pepsi exit, why NFL testing blocks current players from promoting, and the retired player play 41:55 – The Buffalo food tour, Bacchus and Rick's on Main, and the barbell wing tutorial nobody asked for on hand painted sauce 45:44 – Micah not Michael, meeting his wife in San Diego, the neck surgery that ended it in the year that was supposed to be theirs 52:04 – Wanting to be the official hemp beverage of football and get into the new Bills stadium, plus Madi's SIBO years and mocktail series plan Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I bring you inside the world of Jackie Cruz, Flaca from Orange Is the New Black, fresh off her Tribeca Film Festival premiere for Never Change. We get into what it was like being guinea pigs for Netflix before the show exploded, still waitressing through seasons 1 through 3 while people were recognizing her on the street, and filming on location in an abandoned children's psych ward in Orange County that was actually haunted. She also gets into growing up Queens, Dominican, army brat, upstate New York, living out of a Honda Civic at 16, nightlife in New York, and singing the national anthem for the Rams and Dodgers with the Bills and Knicks on her list next. Never Change is already out on Hulu, and why Susan Sarandon sitting behind her at the Tribeca premiere is basically all the review she needs. Chapters 00:18 – Jackie Cruz on no balance with three kids, the Never Change premiere at Tribeca, and getting left alone at her own after party 04:18 – Moving out at 18, living in a Honda Civic at 16, and parents who told her to go run a lemonade stand 06:39 – How working the door at One Oak and Lavo got her into a club in LA a decade later 09:46 – Waitressing through seasons one, two, and three of OITNB while people swore she was that girl from the show 11:40 – Being a guinea pig for Netflix with two lines, getting recognized in SoHo 24 hours after OITNB dropped, and the real friendship with Diane 14:06 – Fangirling over Laura Prepon, and the Vampire Diaries party with 35 people where NOBODY took pictures 17:00 – Why New York beats LA for actually living, plus the national anthem plan for the Knicks, Mets, and finally the Bills 19:32 – Wine in the back at Kaufman that disappeared by end of day, and filming in a haunted abandoned psych ward 23:48 – What Never Change is actually about, the tornado that blew up a Syracuse school, and playing a mom of five 25:30 – Her real goal of doing stand up, meeting SNL writers last night, and the 24 hour wait for a standby ticket 27:55 – The Susan Sarandon grin behind her at the premiere, and pouring shots on the bar after every Knicks game even when they lose Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm spilling everything about Nicholas Pinsker, the guy behind King of Fifth Ave, who built a viral content career around where to find a rich man in NYC while holding down a finance job at an investment bank. We get into the theory that oversexual straight guys eventually start experimenting, a spontaneous Sabres game make out with someone, why NYC female influencers are becoming a monoculture, turning down $4,000 from McDonald's on principle, the Ames sample sale footage he snuck out that sent his DMs into chaos, and why he thinks gay clubs are the worst first date spot even though they're the best place to have fun. Chapters 00:19 – King of Fifth Ave on starting in menswear, working a finance day job, and where his content went next 04:34 – The Sabres game date that ended in a make out at a bar, then finding out the guy was a fan the whole time 07:07 – The best and worst first date spots in New York, plus the exact bars where Goldman and BlackRock guys actually hang out 09:16 – Mapping out where the gays live, Chelsea getting too homogenized, and how guys end up coming out in their mid 20s 15:07 – Pushing back on brands that want seven revisions and a $9 an hour VA in the Philippines who runs Madi's whole operation 18:00 – Richard Branson hanging with creators on the Tiktok cruise, and why brands now chase the 300k and under crowd 24:35 – Botox honesty and showing up casual, then getting the call from Gotham Studios two weeks after moving to New York 29:02 – The Buffalo influencer scene, food bloggers who only support you if you have fewer followers, and rebranding Buffalo Foodslut 32:46 – The Chef's 100th anniversary deal where none of the influencers know they're getting paid, and the Fencing USA collab he loved 39:26 – Why Madi only does long brand partnerships, turning down a $4,000 McDonald's deal at 20k followers, and the CapCut teleprompter trick 45:07 – Going live with Andre Reed on the cruise, the get ready with me monopoly, and the hot guys at the gym as a workout motivator Come on the pod, sponsor an episode, collab, or just reach out  ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/maditellsall Follow my world outside the podcast (food, tailgates, health, behind-the-scenes life) ⁠▫️ https://linktr.ee/madelinehall.nyc Thanks for being here guys. Like, share and subscribe! Catch me yap same time next week, bring snacks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices