Holly & Bridget: Controlling Men 101 (FBF)

Alex Cooper (0:11)

Bridget and Holly, welcome to Call Her Daddy.

Holly Madison (0:13)

Thanks for having us.

Bridget Marquardt (0:14)

Yeah, thanks so much.

Alex Cooper (0:16)

You guys, I was sitting, I think it was like the other week, and I was like, I need a Girls Girl episode. I just need to like talk to girls that get it. And I immediately thought of the two of you, and I'm like, you guys have to come on, so thank you for being here.

Holly Madison (0:28)

I love that.

Alex Cooper (0:29)

So first of all, it's crazy, Holly, because I have a lot of new listeners, and I'm thinking back to when we recorded our first episode together. There may be some people that haven't heard it, so guys, if you haven't listened, go listen, because it was amazing. But how long ago was that?

Holly Madison (0:45)

It was like two years ago, and it was the first interview I'd done in like five years, because I was totally anti-doing PR, but I was a fan of your show, and I thought, well, this will be fun. And then you inspired me to start my own podcast, totally my inspo, because I had so much fun on that one too.

Alex Cooper (0:58)

It was such a good experience, and I agree, I think we were like, oh my God, let's have a convo. We were getting so deep. We were both emotional. We were like, fuck, that was amazing. So thank you for getting so deep with me on that, and anyone again, go watch it, because it's incredible. But now I have you two lovely ladies here, and I want to kind of, maybe people that are new, can you explain, Holly, how do you guys know each other? How are you guys friends? How did you guys meet?

Holly Madison (1:24)

Well, we were living together at the Playboy Mansion for like seven years, and we were on a show, a reality show called The Girls Next Door, that was on from like 2005 to 2009, and that's how we know each other. So it was complicated.

Alex Cooper (1:38)

To people that maybe are listening, that are like, I don't even know what the Playboy Mansion is, I don't understand any of this, please, can you kind of explain what the Playboy Mansion was like during that time?

Bridget Marquardt (1:50)

The Playboy Mansion was the place to be at that time. In the early 2000s, everybody wanted to be there, every celebrity, every girl that I knew of wanted to be a part of it, wanted to be a playmate, wanted to go to the parties. They had the best parties in the world there.

It was just the place that you wanted to go, you wanted to be seen, and you wanted to be a part of that whole lifestyle.

Alex Cooper (2:12)

Yeah, it's like a fairy tale, it looks like from the outside with all these beautiful women. So it's like, what girl wouldn't wanna just like pop in and get like a living space to be around all these people? When you talk about these parties, like can you, like who was the most famous person you ever saw at a party? Like give some context, like the caliber of people that were at these places.

Holly Madison (2:33)

Well, at the time it was like the biggest movie stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz and people like that. George Clooney. Yeah, and the crazy thing is like nobody had like smartphones back then, and you were not allowed to bring cameras in. If you got caught with a camera, you'd be immediately kicked out. So people felt comfortable going there and partying and like Hef had his personal cameras there and personal videographers, but people felt comfortable that they weren't gonna be exposed. So big celebrities felt comfortable going and you would just see all kinds of people there.

Alex Cooper (3:03)

I don't think anyone ever in generations moving forward will ever experience that type of like anonymity when they walk into a room at a party. No. Like the concept, and I can imagine like it maybe was more freeing for a lot of people to know like you're not gonna, I literally wake up the next day sometimes after parties and I see like I'm tagged in a video and I'm like, oh my God, like I smile like that, or I'm like breathing that way. Like what, you can wake up in that kind of world. It's just so different to think back, like not having cameras. Like were you guys at parties, did you feel that same way, like very free, or were you still stressed because you were kind of working in a way?