Milk & Honeys
Milk & Honeys" is the perfect blend of raw industry insights and unfiltered realness. Like the ingredients that sweeten and smooth out a cup of tea, hosts Kayla Becker (TV host of 10 years) and Vanessa Curry (model and actress of 10 years) bring their own flavors to the conversation— Together, they spill the tea on what it really takes to live and thrive in LA’s entertainment scene.
So, grab a mug and sip on some Milk & Honeys—because we’re serving the tea with all the right ingredients.
Milk & Honeys
Episode 6: The Peter Madrigal Experience w/ Kayla Becker and Vanessa Curry
Ever wonder what happens to reality stars after the cameras stop rolling? Peter Madrigal shows us exactly how to parlay 15 minutes of fame into a lasting career with substance and vision.
After ten seasons as the steady, responsible face of Vanderpump Rules, Peter has transformed from SUR restaurant manager to CEO and founder of The Reality Network. With characteristic Gemini energy and entrepreneurial drive, he's building a media platform that's already home to shows like "Catching Cheaters," "Gown and Out in Beverly Hills," and "Hair Cult," with more original content on the way.
What makes Peter's story compelling isn't just his business acumen—it's his perspective on why some reality personalities thrive while others crash and burn. "I've always had my head on my shoulders," he explains, a quality that's allowed him to maintain strong relationships with industry players like Lisa Vanderpump while pursuing ambitious new ventures. His insights on what makes compelling reality TV—authentic relationships between cast members who genuinely know each other—reveal why the original Vanderpump Rules cast created "pop culture history" that new iterations struggle to replicate.
Beyond the business talk, Peter shares entertaining behind-the-scenes stories from his years at SUR, from celebrity encounters with Selena Gomez to Lisa Vanderpump convincing him to break his "dry month" for a tequila shot. He's refreshingly candid about former castmates (especially during our "Sip or Spill" game), while maintaining the diplomatic touch that's made him a reality TV survivor.
Tune in for a masterclass in career longevity from someone who's seen it all in the reality TV world and is now writing his own rules for success. Follow Peter's journey on Instagram @peter_madrigal and check out The Reality Network on Roku or at https://www.realitynetwork.tv/.
all right, welcome back to milk and honey, the two ingredients you need for perfect tea.
Speaker 2:I'm kayla becker, I'm vanessa curry and today's episode is hotter than the espresso machine at Sir on a Friday night. Clever, see what you did there today.
Speaker 1:She said that because today we are joined by the Peter Magical of Vanderpump Rules, also longtime restaurant manager and now the owner and CEO of the Reality Network. But before we bring him on, we do want to talk about a few life updates with me and Vanessa. And I know Vanessa, you've know Vanessa, I don't know any life updates of mine other than just getting the show off the ground. I feel like that's been my entire life for the last few months. But you've had some cool projects you've been working on.
Speaker 2:It has been. It does feel like that.
Speaker 2:We do nothing but talk to each other about the show, which I love, obviously. But yes, I actually shot a film, a feature film, last I don't know Friday or a couple days ago, let's just put it that way and it was awesome. My character was it's called the Lake House. I'm like, let me just talk about it, hold on, let me back up for a second. I shot a feature film called the Lake House. It is produced, written, also acted, by brian hooks and, uh, my character was super fun. Can you give us a little?
Speaker 1:like, taste of what your character like, like. Give me that, that character she oh like the actual I want you to act like be her to me for a second um, okay, so my character, sophie, just like really wants to get married.
Speaker 2:Okay, so, if so, if she's going to get broken up with, like you can't break up with me because we have a wedding, we planned a wedding. Okay, like the. The invitations are out, the sponsors are out, so high maintenance, right, you know what I mean. She's high maintenance, she's oblivious to anything. But also the audience is probably going to wonder is she oblivious or does she just not care and all she really cares about?
Speaker 1:is like herself and the wedding. Is there any part of uh sophie that you felt is a little vanessa? Absolutely I.
Speaker 2:I want to say no because, like duh, I'm not oblivious or like any of that, but no, there's definitely. Uh, sophie is definitely inside of me and well you know what I mean I'm sweating.
Speaker 1:We are 12 year old children, sometimes like teenage boys. Well, I can't wait to watch this.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:have any idea when it's coming out.
Speaker 2:Or we never know.
Speaker 1:I know the movie a year ago and I still have no information on when it's coming out, so we never know, but it was.
Speaker 2:It was super fun, very layered character. I'm still have no information on when it's coming out Exactly, so we never know, but it was super fun, very layered character. I'm excited for it and when it does come out, I can't wait how about you.
Speaker 1:Like I said, this is pretty much it. She goes through her camera roll to like kind of jog her memory of things that have happened. I do, I should have done that. I'll be more prepared next week for more life updates, I think. I don't know if I can. It's the only way you have to look through your camera roll Cause.
Speaker 2:I forget. I have the memory of a fish sometimes, so I forget. So I literally looked back and I said, oh, I did do that. Oh, and I did do that, oh, okay, I do have life updates.
Speaker 1:Well, we did have our launch party with our friends. That we did when we launched milk and honeys. You probably saw it on the social medias, which is really nice to have such a good group of friends who came out and supported us and got tequila drunk with us Absolutely.
Speaker 3:On Cinco de Drinco. On Cinco de Drinco. That's right. It's the only way to do it.
Speaker 1:All right honeys. Well, I mentioned it earlier, it is now time to bring on our guest who is giggling like a teenage boy, like we were just now at that joke. You know him from Vander we're talking business brains and a little behind-the-scenes tea. He's a longtime restaurant manager, a reality TV fixture and now the owner and CEO of the Reality Network, peter Magical. Welcome to Milk and Honey.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having me on, ladies.
Speaker 1:Of course I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you for joining. Huh, I said thank you for joining. Oh, I thought you said twinning. Here, I'm going to take my hair down. Oh twinning, yes, oh yes, I'm going to take my hair down. We have our hair down. Look at that, check it out. Why not, why?
Speaker 1:not Woo-hoo Our views just skyrocketed, skyrocketed.
Speaker 3:Oh, do they? Now we're going to see a shampoo. I'm all about it.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you so much for being here today. Peter, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3:I really appreciate it. That was a really nice introduction.
Speaker 1:You know what? Only the best for the best.
Speaker 3:I didn't know I was the best, but thank you very much. Thank you very much, of course, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:We got to meet you a couple weeks ago at your network launch party at CERN.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, full disclosure uh, I had already launched the actual network in may 20, may 28th of 2024 okay okay and uh, the actual idea for this and the actual groundwork started in july of 2023, so I've been at this for a couple of years now and now it's like really coming to fruition. So I am about to launch. I think by Wednesday I'm going to be launching reality news.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, yes.
Speaker 3:Which is going to be a branch of reality network.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so will that also be on Roku Cause?
Speaker 3:reality news stuff. I'm going to start up like okay, so I am filming my own TV show right now and that's going to be on reality network, but I'm also going to have to host. You know, I'm just a one-man army, so I get up and I breathe this stuff and I'm going to have to host the news for right now until I get someone else to replace me, which is like I can't do everything, of course. So, um, so there's in the, and the timing couldn't be better because there's a lot of rumors going on right now outside in the social media sphere I don't want to call it social media the Instagram sphere.
Speaker 1:Instagram sphere.
Speaker 3:Instagram sphere that a lot of people. Well, one person in particular is saying that she never worked at Sir. Now, what is happening right now?
Speaker 1:Someone's the news, the news. The news is already starting.
Speaker 3:Literally. Yeah, the guy who's designing my website.
Speaker 1:Wait, so wait. Are you not saying her name on purpose? Is this a?
Speaker 3:I mean, I don't want to say her name, but I could. So Charlie, so Charlie gets on. I know who that is. Yes, so I'm getting a lot of questions about this particular situation, and this is the reason why I didn't want to bring this out right now, because of the fact that I am launching my own news network, which is going to host a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 1:You're giving us a little exclusive here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm giving an exclusive. He's giving us the tea.
Speaker 2:I hope you appreciate it, I really appreciate it. Gemini to Gemini, gemini to Gemini, gemini to Gemini to Gemini.
Speaker 3:To Gemini. Gemini is all around. Greatest sign ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 1:If you don't think so, then we don't care, we don't care because we already know we want to change our minds.
Speaker 3:We should talk about Zodiac signs too.
Speaker 1:First, of, all we want to talk about, though, your reality network with Roku.
Speaker 3:Tell us a little bit, by the way cheers, cheers. We have to do that. We got to have a little margaritas. What are we cheersing to?
Speaker 1:We're cheersing to all of our new ventures and success. There we go. Love that, all the tea.
Speaker 2:All the tea and margaritas. You know, we also. How does it feel being behind the camera, Because you've been in front of the camera for so many years?
Speaker 3:Ten seasons.
Speaker 2:That is insane.
Speaker 1:That's a long long time, but now you're stepping into a very different role than just a cast of a reality show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I am shooting my own reality show too, so I'm still in front of camera, but I'm also, you know, behind the scenes and running the company, so it's a lot of work. You know behind the scenes and running the company, so it's a lot of work. But you know what? I love it, it's my purpose.
Speaker 1:It's your purpose, and you know a lot of people love reality television, Myself included. Like I watch reality TV more than I speak to my boyfriend, to be honest. But I love how my idea goes into shooting and editing and building a cast and everything that goes into it. So can you kind of, you know, peel the curtain back a little bit for us and tell us what goes into producing something like that?
Speaker 3:To producing something Okay cool. So you have to have first of all concept. That's number one. So with mine, since it's going to come out later on, it's probably going to be out there in the sphere already the name of my, the rules.
Speaker 1:I like it Love.
Speaker 2:I like it, and do you think that you normally do play outside of the rules? I don't know, because I feel like at least.
Speaker 1:Vanderpump Rules your routine is like the responsible one.
Speaker 3:You're actually still crazy, do you not get it?
Speaker 1:Oh, outside the Vanderpump Rules. She took me on a little journey there.
Speaker 2:He's like guys, you, guys, I, it's literally sitting.
Speaker 1:I love wordplay so much.
Speaker 2:You are going to realize it takes me a minute, do you?
Speaker 3:realize that this is going to, and I just follow you wherever you go. This is going to be. Some people are going to be. It's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1:Are you going to bring other former cast people? I might yeah, I might, yeah. So what's the overall concept?
Speaker 3:So the overall concept is my life behind the scenes. Okay, got it. For instance, the first episode is going to be me bartending guest bartending Because you know it's part of my life is making cocktails.
Speaker 1:Right, you didn't make these, though. No, I didn't make yeah, he would be appalled. He would be appalled If a bartender gave this to him and said we're serving this for our customers.
Speaker 3:He'd be like you're fired oh no, I'd be like you want me to get back there and make you a proper cocktail.
Speaker 1:This is a canned margarita everyone. We're not going to even say the name. I can barely even drink it.
Speaker 2:I know, I'm sorry, no offense. It tastes a little like just like a soda.
Speaker 3:I have 34 cocktail recipes for a book that I'm making.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you were just doing. Do you sleep ever?
Speaker 3:Yes, I get a good. Last night I went to bed at 10. I got up at 5.
Speaker 1:I went to the gym at 6. I even feel in the gym.
Speaker 3:I've been seeing you posting your, your workouts.
Speaker 2:Get him a wrestling ring and you seem to like balance out everything for yourself, Right, so it's like what? What advice would you?
Speaker 3:give to somebody who is coming here. I'm not Okay. Um, sometimes I feel like I'm underwater, but most of the time I just get it. You know, my whole thing is just have one track mind to get it done.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:My dating life doesn't is non-existent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that can be hard.
Speaker 3:But I'm married to my company.
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 3:So I have that, and then I also have, you know, my shows that I'm working on. I have another show that I'm looking to get a budget for in Vegas, something I've been working on for 10 years now. Wow, in the original pitch package material for that show, I had short hair, so it was my short hair era.
Speaker 1:Short hair era. That was a long time ago. Is that ever going to come back? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3:The short hair era will never come back. And those were two seasons of Vanderpump Rules. That was five and six.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have to go back and watch those. What projects? You already have a lot of projects under your belt. I know you have some coming up that you just mentioned, but there's already some that people can go watch on the reality network.
Speaker 3:So those are all syndicated shows. Yes, so I got started with a bunch of syndicated shows.
Speaker 1:Which of those would you say you're most proud?
Speaker 3:of. So Catching Cheaters is really good Gowning Out and Beverly Hills Both of those shows Catching Cheaters and Gowning Out have some of my friends involved in those. That's why they were easy to get. I also have a show that I personally started called. It's a talk show called Serving with Purpose. So it's two of my friends, carolina and Danny. I always told Danny that she is going to be good interviewing people. I always told Dani that she is going to be good interviewing people. I also have a show called Hair Cult, which takes place in a hair salon in Austin Texas.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's fun. Yeah, I love the drama that goes on in the hair salon. Yeah, there's a lot of drama on that show All of our personal therapists and the stories I'm sure that they can tell.
Speaker 3:Exactly. I have one called the Verge, which is about a bunch of transplants from different places around the country to LA to be in the underground hip hop world.
Speaker 1:Love. Are you a hip hop fan?
Speaker 3:Occasionally, I don't really listen to a lot of music.
Speaker 1:I listen to more books.
Speaker 3:When.
Speaker 2:I'm working out, I listen to podcasts. What's your dream reality concept that you would want to make, that you maybe you haven't made?
Speaker 1:or that, maybe that the world hasn't even seen yet yeah maybe a concept.
Speaker 3:So I have an offer, well, uh, so I'm kind of doing them already I mean, yeah, you have your hands in so many different projects already satisfied with you know yeah, I'm pretty satisfied with what's coming up in the future, yes, um especially if I get get Barbara all done, that'll be like an achievement in and of itself. Right, of course, and I have to host it because I'm like well, shit, I guess.
Speaker 1:I'm not, yeah, but also it makes sense for you to be hosting something like that. People are going to tune in to see you host that yeah.
Speaker 2:And what do you think makes a good reality show in general? I mean obviously show in general, Obviously reality, right, we want to see people living their real lives.
Speaker 1:What ingredients go into the perfect reality show?
Speaker 2:What is that tea? The milk and the honey to make the good tea for that reality show.
Speaker 3:I like it. You know, what's funny is, I don't drink tea.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:I drink black coffee.
Speaker 1:I don't drink coffee, but she does.
Speaker 3:I'm a tea girl. Well, do you put anything in your coffee? I?
Speaker 2:do you probably would hate it. It's just a little creamer. It's just a little creamer I don't put sugar just creamer. But yeah, my brother-in-law drinks it black and I I just it, can I?
Speaker 1:think people who drink black coffee should be studied. Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 2:That's like self-torture you're drinking bitter water.
Speaker 3:It tastes so good oh god, that's what it tastes like I go I go in, I go into like earth or zinc and I'm like give me a coffee if you want room for cream no, fill that baby up to the top.
Speaker 1:Okay, wait so you told us.
Speaker 2:You told us what like makes makes a good reality show. But like what? What could ruin a reality show?
Speaker 3:okay. So as far as uh making a good one, I'd say uh, compelling characters, compelling people. Rather, it's not like it's. You don't write something, you have to find. That's. That was why vanderpump rules was so successful is because it was around a bunch of compelling people.
Speaker 1:The best cast in reality TV of all time. I feel like it still has not been topped. People try to top that cast. I went back and watched all the seasons recently and it just it is golden. It almost seems too good to be non-scripted. It's very interesting looking back on it?
Speaker 2:I never watched it until, to be fair, until the scandal stuff happens, it was all over my screen. And it's like, well, who is this guy? So I did not know what was going on, like people were saying, and I just so then. And then I went to her house when we were doing a brainstorming uh session and she had it on and I was. She was like, yeah, I put this on, I'm re-watching it and I put it on when I'm working.
Speaker 2:You know, I have not turned it off I started from season one, just like maybe two months ago, and I'm just going through it now, and so now, I've seen all like not all of them, yet I'm still not caught up. But what? Yeah, the cast is just it's, it's insane but now they're getting a whole new cast.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, sorry, continue and we'll go into that.
Speaker 3:But so your question was what makes what makes a?
Speaker 2:good reality show and what ruins it Compelling cast. Compelling cast.
Speaker 3:And what ruins it is so a compelling cast. I always go back to VPR, so you have to have an interesting person who's leading it, or a group of people. But these group of people, they have to know each other, right? You know what I mean. It has to come off naturally, because you know, let's say you and I go out, what are we going to talk about? Right? Nothing, right, and we're going to be on camera too. Exactly.
Speaker 2:You see, going to talk about right, nothing right, and we're going to be on camera too.
Speaker 3:Exactly you see what I mean. Exactly. So we, we have to know like and that's the reason why vpr works so well because we had. We had, until we laid something down on camera in 2011, we had known each other since 2008 the relationships had already been built and established. Yeah, right, yeah the relationships, breakups, etc all the drama backlog, all the. So so you can talk about anything.
Speaker 1:You see what I mean. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:So that and so compelling characters are one, are one contribution to a great television, uh, reality television show. And then of course the cast, already kind of knowing each other and being familiar with each other and being able to banter.
Speaker 1:So then probably what ruins it is just having the opposite, like if you do put a bunch of random people in a show.
Speaker 3:Random people, yeah, no, and do the drama Right. They won't even know where to begin All right.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, you know Vanderpump Rules. We got to talk a little bit. You still work at. Sir, is it comfort or chaos that keeps you there?
Speaker 3:You're the last standing member, right? Yeah, it's not comfort or chaos.
Speaker 2:It's just, uh, you know, just enjoyment, yeah, yeah, does it still? Yeah, I was going to say, does it still feel like home to you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, yeah, in many ways, but more like today, I'm more of a brand ambassador. Now I go in, I take pictures. I'm not really the manager anymore you know. Yeah, it's a different environment. Last year at this time I was the head honcho. You know, but managing a place for 15 years takes a toll. And as much stuff you have going on right now, I can't imagine you have time to go manage yeah, exactly A restaurant as popular as Sir.
Speaker 1:Well, what do you think about this whole new cast situation?
Speaker 3:Well, I know the cast.
Speaker 1:The new one. Yeah, I know them yeah do you think they are doing a good cast? I mean I, I hope so for their sake.
Speaker 3:I hope so right I hope they bring it. I hope that it's a good.
Speaker 1:I hope that they choose to fill. It's big, it's huge shoes to fill.
Speaker 3:It's not like oh well, we're just going to go in to make this like little show. Are you kidding me? It it's Vanderpump Rules. I know it is one of the biggest, greatest shows in the history of television. It is pop culture history.
Speaker 1:It is. They do the Charleston version. I guess, what is it Southern, not Southern Comfort? That's what I want to always call it.
Speaker 2:It's the.
Speaker 1:Charleston Vanderpump Rules thing Southern.
Speaker 2:Hospitality Southern.
Speaker 1:Hospitality. I feel like they're trying to be vanderpump rules, but I've seen james kennedy pop there. Like I can tell it's kind of some crossover but no, it could be peter madrigal.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry you're gonna have to commit. No one can be peter madrigal madrigal do you are?
Speaker 2:are any of the older uh people from Vanderpump rules giving advice to these?
Speaker 3:newbies, or are they kind of?
Speaker 2:really out of that question.
Speaker 3:That I don't think so. I mean, like a lot of them are on another, uh, they're just doing. Yeah, they're doing their own thing at this point, you know whenever people ask me like my opinion, I give it to them, though, cause I'm I'm around.
Speaker 1:Oh, around. Oh, of course that's good. You know you want, you want to, you want to help, but also I feel like for me, I wouldn't help that much because I want to see, I want to see people. Uh, I want to see the squirm a little bit we have to squirm.
Speaker 2:You know what's okay. So the what's something that fans never.
Speaker 1:Oh, he hates that drink that drink, but I love that he's still sipping. He's so dramatic over here. Mr Big Time Hot Shot bartender over here hates my canned margarita.
Speaker 2:I worked so hard on pouring this and don't you forget it.
Speaker 3:I could make you a margarita that you'd be like, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Next time we have you on, it's called the pita rita. Well, I had it at your party. Yes, I had several Peteritas.
Speaker 3:Oh, there we go yeah they were actually very good.
Speaker 1:It was very good. Yes, it was very, very good.
Speaker 2:But what is something that the Vanderpump fans never got to see that you can give us? Maybe no one has seen, I don't know because I've never seen the show.
Speaker 1:You've never watched it.
Speaker 3:That's amazing, I'm like I don't like him.
Speaker 1:That is funny. I'm that way too. I don't like watching myself laughing.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's Peter, I'll be walking by at Sir, and we got it playing constantly on the TV behind the bar. I look up and I'm like randomly see me. I'm like, but then you look in and you're like, wait, hold on. What am I talking?
Speaker 1:about in that scene yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, I'm just, have you ever been like?
Speaker 3:really, what was going on at that point in time in my life, did you?
Speaker 1:ever give yourself like kind of an ick? I give give myself an ick when I watch myself back all the time. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:Especially now that I'm older and looking back on it, I would have done things a little bit differently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, are you going to get that chance? Are you going to be in the new season or are you he's saying he doesn't, he's keeping that?
Speaker 1:Oh, I was just seeing if we could maybe, like's she's the gotcha journalist over here get it out of you on accident. You know what I mean give him some more alcohol, you're not gonna have any success with that woman okay um, you know we've seen people you know on reality tv for all of these years, uh, who go through drastic transformations, and not only the way they look, but also their personalities. Do you feel like reality tv really does to people's quirk, change them both positively and negatively?
Speaker 3:Well, it changed me for a positive change.
Speaker 1:Did you so? Tell us how it changed you for a positive.
Speaker 3:Well, um, uh, I did it to advance my career and, uh, get my name out there. That's, that's one of the reasons why I did a lot of, why I did 10 seasons. Um, why I did 10 seasons, you know, just to keep my, you know, just advancing my career. That was a positive for me and have opportunities that I have today you know to work with some awesome people and have some awesome relationships and, you know, build an awesome company.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and though you know, on the flip side, that we've seen many people who have gone through the rally TV world squander those opportunities and actually potentially ruin parts of their life. We've been seeing all over the Instagram verse, or whatever you call it. Jax Taylor is a good example of someone I'm going to ask are y'all not friends, right?
Speaker 1:I've already kindled your friends, your, your, your romance. I think the who says it all. But people like that are the James Kennedy's. It's like how are you given this huge platform, given everything, opportunity to just throw it all away? And you've done the right thing, clearly. I mean, I feel like you are coming out looking as like one of the most successful people who were there that show and you have a good reputation. You got your head on your shoulders, people respect you and that's all you could ever hope for when you think about it.
Speaker 3:I've always had my head on my shoulders and you know, everyone always called me the calm and the chaos yeah, absolutely yeah, for sure that's basically always been my role, because I I was always the switzerland, I was always the peacemaker I was always the guy in between the fights, you know, except for when, uh, sandoval punched taylor. Um, that was season two. Okay, yeah, I was like. I remember telling him at his birthday if Tom comes after you, I'm not getting in the way Because I could, because I'm stronger than both of them.
Speaker 2:You could hold both of them just by the shirt.
Speaker 1:It was always fun for me to watch when you actually hung out with everybody and let loose, because it was kind of a rare thing to see, because you were always kind of.
Speaker 3:I always let loose when we were out of town yeah and that's something I always told lisa. At least it's all like you know. Make sure, peter, that, that you don't disrespect the, the the brand, the brand no, the, the restaurant and I'm all like, whatever I do stuff, it's not even in the country okay. If I'm like, if I'm acting a little crazy, I mean sometimes, sometimes it's at like a club or whatever, but I'm never doing that, it's sir yeah, like that's not a thing.
Speaker 1:You know you're really clearly you and lisa still have a good relationship. If you're still managing, sir, how often do you do you talk with her?
Speaker 3:I just saw her a couple of days ago. Yeah, how would she do it?
Speaker 1:I'm such a fan I've ran into, ran into her in West Hollywood one night and I just had to get it she. She was so nice to me and took a picture with me and with Ken.
Speaker 3:Oh, she's very gracious, she was great yeah.
Speaker 1:How was it like working with her? Oh it was.
Speaker 3:it's always been awesome. Yeah, it slash bartender at the time and I hardly knew them and we were expanding into the lounge uh, the lounge where it is today, so where I, where I started, was just the original sir right and then they bought the building next door and created the lounge and I remember uh working because we had lunches at the time. So I remember working a lunch and they were constructing uh the lounge and lisa asked me for some tea, so I brought her her tea right, which is um uh english breakfast with milk, all right.
Speaker 3:And then, uh, she I remember her turning to me and saying, peter, you can, you can say hi to me, it's fine. I was like, oh okay, next thing you know, I'm behind the bar mixing some drinks. Ken and Guillermo walk through because they were doing an inspection of the new spot and I say hey, ken, how's it going? He's like what do you want? I'm just saying hi, ken. He seemed like such a delight.
Speaker 1:But he was all like, oh, how's it going?
Speaker 3:Hello, I don't need anything from you. Yes, exactly, that's the first thing I thought, that, and I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1:That's the first thing I thought that he thought yeah, what does this guy want?
Speaker 2:yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 3:I was like I'm just saying hi ken, you know and ever since then we have we've had a good relationship yeah, no, I, I think lisa, really she.
Speaker 2:She's a boss lady with compassion, which is hard to come by, you know, like that's the, she has the best of both personalities.
Speaker 1:It's really awesome she spent so much time giving so much advice to these young kids, trying, you know, get them back in the state, and you know saw a lot of times it was thrown back in her face. So it is nice to know that you still have a great relationship with her.
Speaker 2:I'm sure she really appreciates and really appreciate and she knows who can, uh, play hard and work hard.
Speaker 1:It's pretty obvious, and you're obviously one of those people I could play hard and work hard exactly. Lisa plays hard exactly.
Speaker 2:She was a little yeah you know and you find out real quick who can't lisa has some fun.
Speaker 1:She should I remember.
Speaker 3:I remember because I like to take dry months. So I remember there's a picture on my twitter of me carrying lisa around. You can go to like. If you go to my twitter, you'll see that picture. It's my avatar right and um that I had ended my sobriety.
Speaker 1:That not sobriety, but my dry month because I like to do dry two a year.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so this was in uh february of last year. All right, 2024 and um. Before I took that picture, she, uh ken ken was all like oh, you know, do you want to have a shot with me? I was like ken I'm dry right now, he's like. So he goes and tells lisa, lisa's like, come here, do a shot bad influence I'm dry this month.
Speaker 2:She's like I will take a shot if you take a shot you can't say no, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 3:So I go get a two I get two shots of tequila, I give her one. I remember looking at the island.
Speaker 1:Let's go. That's amazing. How has she been? Have you gotten advice? I mean, she's a queen of reality tv in a lot of ways. Have you gone to her at all with advice?
Speaker 3:I haven't. She's busy, so I'm just like you know, I know what to do, of course, of course.
Speaker 1:Well, it's that time of the game, time of the show we like to play.
Speaker 3:Don't tell me we have to chug this no.
Speaker 1:It's up to you actually. It is now time for Sip or Spill. So, basically, we're going to ask you some questions you can answer If you don't want to answer you've got to take a nice big gulp of that. And again, there is a refill behind you.
Speaker 2:Is that it? That's it. Don't show it because they don't sponsor us. They don't sponsor us. No free sponsors.
Speaker 1:We can pour a little bit more in there, so what?
Speaker 3:if I sip this entire thing, that'll make it very boring.
Speaker 1:These questions are pretty tame, so you probably won't even want it. You'll probably sip just for fun. Anyway, we're going to kick things off, sip or spill, take it away.
Speaker 2:Best restaurant in LA that's not owned by Lisa Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1:I'm going to sip to that because cheers. She has a lot. She has a lot, so I don't know. You can't be promoting other restaurants on here, can you, all right, give us a wildest encounter with a fan. You said you had a song. Well, that I'm not going to give you Okay, we won't talk about that. We won't talk about that.
Speaker 2:I don't want to talk about mine either. She stopped real quick.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I blocked on all social media Same. Yeah, I mean, I've had really good encounters with a fan, that's good, with people that watch the show Okay, good, I've had really good encounters, have you?
Speaker 2:ever hooked up with a fan that you knew was a fan Sick, I knew that was going to be a sin. Of course I have Come on.
Speaker 1:All right. There you go. Okay, who's like the rudest celebrity that has been in a restaurant that you have worked at. The rudest celebrity encounter.
Speaker 3:The rudest celebrity encounter. Yeah, you know what I've met Al Pacino there. I met Kobe Bryant there I met Kevin Garnett there.
Speaker 1:I haven't had a rude no rude celebrity. I love that.
Speaker 3:Dolph Lundgren comes in all the time.
Speaker 1:People are nicer these days. I feel like back in the day there's a lot of entitlement, especially in the la world, but I feel like you don't see that as much yeah, I haven't you know, I do think with social media.
Speaker 3:Maybe it's because I'm on tv, though maybe it's because I you know yeah, I don't know, I haven't, I haven't. My one of my favorite encounters was, uh, selena gomez okay I didn't like. I barely I kind of knew who she was because I don't pay attention to you know, like the celebrity gossip, and Everyone was freaking out taking her table. Everybody was freaking out. I was like, if you guys can't be professional, I'm going to do it myself. I approached the table. She's like Peter, how's it going that?
Speaker 1:was your first time meeting her.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's the weirdest.
Speaker 2:I know your name, but we haven't properly met. I'm going to introduce myself.
Speaker 3:The worst thing was this was funny they started ordering drinks. I was like are you Holt over 21? And she's like Peter, I'm 24 or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, baby Selena and I was like I don't know.
Speaker 2:You look young Jesus.
Speaker 1:Well, if you don't want to answer, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Who do you think? Who do you think From what we saw?
Speaker 2:there were a lot of rude people on that show.
Speaker 1:Who do?
Speaker 2:you think? I think James, james Kennedy is probably the rudest. I'm sorry, maybe not now. I don't know him as a person, but on the show.
Speaker 3:Oh, now that I think about it, yeah, I do think that he was. Jax actually was. I don't think he was rude to you. No, was uh great to to customers. Um he uh, we met rude to you specifically, not to the customers yeah, just rude to me.
Speaker 2:Who's gonna be rude to me? That's true, he is the boss. It was like it was not just the boss no, have you ever had to fire somebody that you liked?
Speaker 3:uh, who did I fire? The only person I've ever fired is like if I like somebody, that means they're doing a good job. That's true, so the other person I fired was James Kennedy. There you go.
Speaker 1:Who do you think was the biggest star of Vanderpump?
Speaker 3:Biggest star Stassi Schroeder.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's great, she's back on Vanderpump Villa. She is Fun Stassi.
Speaker 2:Schroeder Okay, that's great, she's back on Vanderpump Villa. She is. What show do you think is total trash.
Speaker 1:Like it's a terrible show that's on the air right now. You look and look. I would never do a show like this.
Speaker 3:I've already said it, I said it last year and I'll say it again the Valley.
Speaker 1:The Valley. Oh, okay, so there's no future of you appearing on the Valley? No, I do watch the show. It's background noise.
Speaker 3:I said it last year and I stand by that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I need to finish Vanderpump first.
Speaker 3:There were so many articles that were printed out about Peter. Madrigal thinks the Valley is garbage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I'm not going to completely disagree with you how many seasons does the Valley have? Two.
Speaker 3:I think so.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:Your favorite reality TV show? How many seasons are there?
Speaker 2:I think it's probably second or third. Second or third, yeah, I think it's third I don't know he's like I don't know, I don't even watch my own show. What is your favorite reality TV show right now?
Speaker 1:Maybe something that you model yours after. That's not yours.
Speaker 2:That's not yours.
Speaker 1:That is cheating.
Speaker 3:Peter, my favorite reality show of all time.
Speaker 1:Sure yeah.
Speaker 3:All time, all time, hell's Kitchen.
Speaker 1:You love to cook and you're doing something with cooking.
Speaker 3:I'm doing something with drink making which is similar to Hell's Kitchen. I mean not Hell's Kitchen, but MasterChef. I'm doing is similar to Hell's Kitchen. I mean not Hell's Kitchen but, MasterChef. Okay, yeah, I'm doing something similar to that, yes.
Speaker 1:I love that. I'll be into that.
Speaker 3:So I am a big fan of Gordon Ramsay.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 3:Gordon Ramsay.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I love watching all those cooking shows. Same, I actually went to-.
Speaker 3:The greatest season of Hell's Kitchen ever is season eight Season is season eight.
Speaker 1:Season eight Okay, I'm going to have to go back and do some re-watching.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you're going to be laughing your ass off Really, okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:He's hype about this. Oh yeah, Rog, Rog Me.
Speaker 3:Chef.
Speaker 2:Rog Chef. Oh God it's.
Speaker 3:Rog.
Speaker 2:Is that well?
Speaker 1:what's your successful reality?
Speaker 2:villain of all time who is, and even have that show villains. I mean, I've never watched. I've never watched it either. But any television villain like who's the best villain. I guess the villain would like keep coming back to right you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know I mean who's who's the best villain?
Speaker 1:I hate to say his name for the third time, but jack taylor, I think, goes down as one of the best you got voted off quickly yeah, and he's oh, do you have? Do you have any comment on what he's dealing with right now?
Speaker 2:Okay, that's another sip, okay.
Speaker 1:Last one.
Speaker 3:I'd rather sip this.
Speaker 1:Last one which castmate, which former castmate, would you never cast in one of your shows?
Speaker 2:Oh, no, I think I know the answer.
Speaker 1:I think you know the answer.
Speaker 2:I think it's.
Speaker 1:Shaq's table All right.
Speaker 2:Peter Poor guy.
Speaker 1:Let's call the lab.
Speaker 2:Well, that was fun.
Speaker 3:How are?
Speaker 1:you feeling? You feeling a little tipsy from that amazing margarita?
Speaker 2:Nope, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:That's mostly juice probably a sprinkle of tequila Before we go. I just want to make sure we get all the information you want people to know about the Reality Network, what you want people to know about your new chapter.
Speaker 2:Okay so do I look right here? Yes, right down the barrel.
Speaker 3:Wait, what do you want me to say?
Speaker 1:You want people to know about the Reality Network, where they can watch it, what they can look forward to.
Speaker 3:You can go and subscribe to the Reality Network at watchrealitynetworktv or you can check out our main website, realitynetworktv. We're also on Roku we. You can check out our main website, realitynetworktv. We're also on Roku and we're going to have some new shows coming out. And if you want to see some real tea on there, you can go and check out Reality News.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Realitynewstv.
Speaker 1:That's going to be the website, so that's all coming out, and then, obviously, follow you on social media, which is where we can just yeah, peter underscore. Madrigal on Instagram. Oh, you didn't get just the Peter Madrigal, you had the underscore, had to go to somewhere to take it.
Speaker 3:No, actually mine is one of the oldest on Instagram and I had to like, I tried to do like both of them together. I was like, no, I need to separate.
Speaker 1:Oh, you wanted to separate it. Oh, I see you wanted to separate it. Yeah, okay, it's so hard these days. We're trying to get our milk and honeys off the ground and we couldn't get milk and honeys.
Speaker 3:I'm one of the first people on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Kayla Becker was around. It was funny because I was Kayla Braxton for so long in WWE because they give us fake names. So then I had all this following from WWE and then I quit. I'm like I need Kayla.
Speaker 3:Becker back. I thought you weren't in ring talent.
Speaker 1:I was a broadcaster. Oh, okay, I was the one who did all the talk shows and interviews and stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, so I was in the ring, but not as a fan. I thought you were just a producer. No, no.
Speaker 1:I was a yeah, I was the host at all their shows.
Speaker 3:Oh, very cool. Yeah, oh cool.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so I wanted to you smell what Stone. Cold. Did you grow up watching wrestling?
Speaker 3:I grew up in the Attitude Era who did you give a favorite? My favorite was Stone Cold.
Speaker 1:Steve Austin. He's just out here in El Segundo he's nearby.
Speaker 3:I love it, love Stone Cold.
Speaker 1:Austin 316 says I just kicked your ass now we need you to shotgun a beer, and we're good to go.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I can shotgun a beer and then I want to stutter and so next in Peter's Venture in-ring wrestling.
Speaker 2:We'll see you in the in-ring.
Speaker 3:You know what's hilarious is that I had another company called Celebrity Slots that I started back in 2018. And originally it started off as Peterrific Slots, right. So I had like a bunch of my own sayings on there like uh, peter, like peter, love, right so we had natalie eva marie on there yeah, we had rick flair. On there we had a couple of uh wwe personalities on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 3:We also had food god we had um dennis rodman, who's also in the wwe yeah, I've done some stuff with dennis, yeah d generation xGeneration X.
Speaker 1:There you go, see, you know your stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh, you have no idea, I don't know current?
Speaker 1:Of course, I don't know current.
Speaker 3:I don't know what's going on. Attitude Era was where it's at. It was the best. Once they fired Scott Hall, I was kind of out, out no. No, but that's when I you know. So I was done playing football, I was done watching all this. I was like I was just more studying and partying than watching TV Of course. Well, I was also playing a little bit of football in college too, so my time was like now I don't have time because I'm you know working on it.
Speaker 1:You don't have time period. Period, that's what you have to say. I don't have time for anything, which is amazing period.
Speaker 2:That's the time for anything which is amazing, which we love, which we're all thriving to do. That, okay, let's be honest. But with that being said, all good things must come to an end, including this episode you know what's funny is?
Speaker 3:I'm a gabber, so I could have kept on talking but peter sir, survivor, ceo chaos connoisseur. Really appreciate you joining us and master drink taster.
Speaker 1:Master drink taster. I will do better next time. I promise Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2:It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yes, so much fun. Follow up mine.
Speaker 2:Just a reminder follow Milk and Honey on Instagram. Tiktok for all the sass and sneak peeks that we have coming up.
Speaker 1:That's right, Until next time. Bye honeys. See ya, bye.
