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Go Florida! · Boozy Banter with Friends

• 0:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hello and welcome to boozy banter
• 0:20
  Diane Black: With friends
• 0:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm Leyla
• 0:22
  Trisha Smith: I'm Trisha
• 0:23
  Diane Black: I'm Diane
• 0:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: Grab your favorite spirit and join us because shits about to get real.
• 0:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hello
• 0:38
  Trisha Smith: Hey
• 0:38
  Diane Black: Hey
• 0:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Some things just don't change.
• 0:44
  Trisha Smith: Never change
• 0:45
  Diane Black: Nope
• 0:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: Welcome to season two episode
• 0:51
  Trisha Smith: One We're back to one.
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  Diane Black: Uno
• 0:55
  Leyla Zmeskal: We're back
• 0:56
  Trisha Smith: And we didn't take much of a break. We just reorganized.
• 1:00
  Diane Black: Yes
• 1:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: We just did a little reorganization.
• 1:03
  Trisha Smith: It's summertime.
• 1:03
  Trisha Smith: That's that's when you do things, right?
• 1:07
  Diane Black: That is when you do things.
• 1:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: Sure
• 1:08
  Trisha Smith: Or is that not when you do things?
• 1:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: I don't know.
• 1:11
  Trisha Smith: I don't know.
• 1:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Summer Solstice is coming up. So we'll say, yes,
• 1:14
  Trisha Smith: Right
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  Diane Black: Yes
• 1:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: This is new beginnings.
• 1:16
  Diane Black: Right
• 1:17
  Trisha Smith: I meant to check and see. Okay, maybe you can tell me when's the next new moon because Laurie May Alexander in Cassadaga said you should always do things when it's a new moon remember?
• 1:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: Ah, yeah new adventures.
• 1:31
  Trisha Smith: We're probably way off like we've always been.
• 1:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: You know what? We do what we want.
• 1:36
  Trisha Smith: We do what we want.
• 1:40
  Trisha Smith: I don't know what that is.
• 1:41
  Leyla Zmeskal: Diane is doing the Googles.
• 1:43
  Trisha Smith: She's googling
• 1:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: So why Diane's doing the Google's Why don't we continue on with a
• 1:48
  Diane Black: What's the date today? The new moon.
• 1:51
  Trisha Smith: No way!
• 1:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: No way!
• 1:52
  Diane Black: Wait, no way. Wait, wait first quarter?
• 1:59
  Diane Black: Yeah, no new moon June 10. We just passed it.
• 2:02
  Trisha Smith: See
• 2:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Somethings coming up though. Whatcha drinking?
• 2:07
  Diane Black: Well, I don't know that it has a name.
• 2:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: It does not have a name.
• 2:11
  Diane Black: It has a little bit of the gates. What's it called
• 2:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: City Gates
• 2:16
  Diane Black: City Gates, spiced rum.
• 2:19
  Leyla Zmeskal: Spiced Orange
• 2:20
  Diane Black: Yes. Spice orange rum.
• 2:22
  Leyla Zmeskal: Uh huh
• 2:23
  Diane Black: And, I have some ginger beer. So really kind of took two concoctions and poured them into one, cuz then I have the coconut mango water. And also the Haus
• 2:35
  https: //drink.haus/ Bitter Clove Aper too, how do you say
• 2:38
  Trisha Smith: Aperitif it?
• 2:38
  Diane Black: Apre tea p
• 2:41
  Leyla Zmeskal: Aperitif
• 2:42
  Diane Black: What is it?
• 2:44
  Trisha Smith: A-pear-a-tif
• 2:45
  Diane Black: A-pear-a-tif
• 2:46
  Trisha Smith: I don't know
• 2:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: Someone knows how to say it.
• 2:49
  Trisha Smith: We don't know how to say.
• 2:51
  Diane Black: It's too damn fancy for me, but it's umm, delish.
• 2:56
  Trisha Smith: You got all things in that.
• 2:57
  Diane Black: I do
• 2:58
  Trisha Smith: That's a lot.
• 2:59
  Diane Black: Concoction.
• 3:00
  Trisha Smith: That's a lot
• 3:00
  Diane Black: That's what I'm going to call it, it's a concoction.
• 3:02
  Trisha Smith: Concoction
• 3:04
  Diane Black: What are you drinking Leyla?
• 3:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm piggybacking on Trisha today.
• 3:08
  Trisha Smith: I know, I found this great rum the other night, when I was shopping for rum, sometimes you're looking for something specific, but it's called Kasama Small Batch Rum.
• 3:24
  Trisha Smith: And it's Filipino.
• 3:27
  Diane Black: What? Represent!
• 3:29
  Trisha Smith: Right! It's got some Filipino sass in it.
• 3:35
  Diane Black: Ah and your finger and you dipped it in and you add a little more sass.
• 3:40
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, I didn't add all my germs to that. I'm saying it's COVID still sticking my fingers in anything.
• 3:49
  Diane Black: It's your own drink.
• 3:50
  Trisha Smith: Yes, but Leyla just said
• 3:53
  Diane Black: Oh right, she's piggybacking off of you, right.
• 3:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think I'm contaminated her drink or anything.
• 3:59
  Trisha Smith: But I mixed it
• 4:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: Germy
• 4:00
  Trisha Smith: I know, i'm not, but you know how I am about germs.
• 4:03
  Diane Black: I do.
• 4:04
  Trisha Smith: So a couple weeks ago Leyla introduced me to, is it Bai, or bay?
• 4:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: Bai
• 4:11
  Trisha Smith: Bai coconut water with the pineapple. Well I found one with mango was like coconut and mango was so good so we mixed it up this rum and it's tasty,
• 4:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: And delish
• 4:25
  Trisha Smith: So yeah, that's gonna, I bought several bottles.
• 4:29
  Trisha Smith: I'm, I'm putting that way.
• 4:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: For one of our episodes, I mixed it with the pineapple rum.
• 4:35
  Trisha Smith: Yes
• 4:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: So good
• 4:37
  Trisha Smith: It didn't even taste like a cocktail. It tasted like juice.
• 4:41
  Diane Black: Yeah. Oh, that's dangerous.
• 4:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: It tasted like pina colada without the ice.
• 4:45
  Trisha Smith: Right It was so good
• 4:47
  Diane Black: Mmmm Perfect for summer.
• 4:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: So right
• 4:49
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, I will be indulging them.
• 4:52
  Leyla Zmeskal: And City Gates, I swear they are hitting things out of the park!
• 4:55
  Trisha Smith: Yes!
• 4:56
  Diane Black: They are really good.
• 4:57
  Trisha Smith: So good. I mean, they're worth the drive. to St.
• 5:00
  Trisha Smith: Augustine.
• 5:01
  Diane Black: Definitely
• 5:01
  Trisha Smith: For sure
• 5:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah
• 5:03
  Trisha Smith: So, So speaking of St. Augustine
• 5:06
  Diane Black: Yes
• 5:07
  Trisha Smith: You remember when we drove up there, all the way up there for two hours.
• 5:12
  Trisha Smith: I do
• 5:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah
• 5:12
  Diane Black: I do
• 5:13
  Trisha Smith: You know we, we have to go through Daytona so we drive on I-4.
• 5:19
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah
• 5:20
  Diane Black: And stop at Bucc-ee's .
• 5:22
  Trisha Smith: We stop at Buc-ee's in Daytona
• 5:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's off of 95.
• 5:25
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, we get off we take I-4, we get off on 95 when we go to St. Augustine.
• 5:28
  Trisha Smith: But, today, I'm gonna talk about the I-4 dead zone.
• 5:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: What?
• 5:34
  Diane Black: Whoa, yes.
• 5:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's that's a kind of a thing.
• 5:38
  Trisha Smith: It is
• 5:38
  Diane Black: It is very a thing
• 5:40
  Trisha Smith: You know it comes and goes, like sometimes you hear about it a lot. And then sometimes you don't hear about it at all. And it's just been at the back of my mind because we've driven that way, we have to get on now stretch a road going to Cassadaga, going to St.
• 5:53
  Trisha Smith: Augustine. We went to Savannah, even just going to Buc-ee's, we have to get on that small stretch of I-4 right where this dead zone is. So I guess it a little bit today.
• 6:07
  Diane Black: It is
• 6:07
  Leyla Zmeskal: I like that
• 6:07
  Trisha Smith: Pretty interesting. I had never I mean, I'd heard about it for years, like since we moved here, but I'd never really learned about it. And so it was really interesting.
• 6:20
  Trisha Smith: So if you've ever visit Florida, you probably driven on I-4 whether because it runs between Daytona Beach and Tampa Bay. I always consider it north to south but evidently, you know, it's east to west.
• 6:36
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. And if you look at Florida, it I guess it
• 6:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah does, you know, it does go east to west, but I always think of it as North the South but it's only 132 miles.
• 6:49
  Diane Black: Wow
• 6:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: Really?
• 6:50
  Trisha Smith: For an interstate.
• 6:50
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. It's so short,
• 6:54
  Leyla Zmeskal: It seems so much longer.
• 6:56
  Trisha Smith: I know, well, when you're when you get on it, like where we get on it to go to Daytona, it's the most long. I mean, it's the most boring,
• 7:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right
• 7:06
  Trisha Smith: Longest drive you've ever been on, because you don't see anything for about.
• 7:11
  Leyla Zmeskal: Unless you're playing psychic radio.
• 7:13
  Trisha Smith: Unless your're playing pyschic radio. That's the only way to get through the drive.
• 7:17
  Diane Black: Sure
• 7:19
  Trisha Smith: So halfway between Daytona and Orlando, is that bridge that goes over the St.
• 7:24
  Trisha Smith: Johns River and you know, you see Lake Monroe off to the side.
• 7:27
  Trisha Smith: It's in Seminole County, represent.
• 7:32
  Diane Black: Represent!
• 7:35
  Trisha Smith: That's where we're all from, so halfway between on this stretch of bridge, it's there's a quarter it's just a quarter mile section, just south of the bridge across the St.
• 7:48
  Trisha Smith: Johns River that's known as the dead zone. In has earned this nickname due to the high amount of traffic accidents along this small section of road. Depending on the sources, there have been an estimated 1048 to 1740 car crashes in this specific one quarter mile section since the highway was opened in 1963, with a significant number involving fatalities, but exact numbers are really hard to find. Like, everybody knows there's been a lot of accidents there. But to pinpoint down an exact number is, it it's just impossible. So in 2007 I mean that's quite a while ago, but this is that was the best I could find. local news station, WKMG channel 6, reported that the Florida Highway Patrol said nearly 440 accidents had been reported there between 1999 and 2006, the seven years in that quarter mile section, while state officials often blamed traffic congestion and highway construction for the unusually high number of crashes. Others attribute the cause to something a bit more supernatural.
• 9:16
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oooo
• 9:16
  Trisha Smith: I know. So in order to understand where that comes from, we got to learn a little bit of history. So, in 1870, this area was all wilderness like much of Florida, but it was owned by Henry Sanford. So we go to Sanford quite a bit.
• 9:41
  Diane Black: All the time
• 9:42
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. So he was the head of the Florida land and colonization company. So it was his job to sell off land. In 1886, a small railroad station was built nearby and the land was divided into 10 acre parcels in hopes of attracting German immigrants to the area. I guess they were, you know, really coming in the country and they wanted to bring them down to Florida and get them to settle here. So Henry Sanford appointed a Catholic priest named Felix Swimburg to oversee the farming community.
• 10:22
  Diane Black: Swimburg?
• 10:23
  Trisha Smith: Swimburg, so they call this community, St.
• 10:27
  Trisha Smith: Joseph's, but only four familie ended up settling there. I gues they're like it's just too wil for us, of the four families. O e family ended up dying, the ent re family ended up dying of yel ow fever, the damn yello
• 10:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: That damn yellow fever ruins everything.
• 10:48
  Trisha Smith: In 1887. Because father Swanberg, Swimberg, So Father Swimberg was afraid it would spread. So they buried the family in the woods north of the railroad that ran through there.
• 11:12
  Trisha Smith: But a few days later, the priest was called to Tampa to minister to more victims of the yellow fever epidemic that was spreading there. And he himself died three days
• 11:24
  Diane Black: Oh no!
• 11:24
  Trisha Smith: After arriving in Tampa, which I'm thinking that means he probably
• 11:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: Was sick already
• 11:30
  Trisha Smith: I know right, he was a super spreader
• 11:34
  Diane Black: Yes! What the hell Father Shwimburg
• 11:39
  Trisha Smith: So unfortunately, because he died, the information about the graves in St. Joseph's colony died along with him.
• 11:49
  Diane Black: Duh, Duh, Duh
• 11:51
  Trisha Smith: Exactly
• 11:52
  Leyla Zmeskal: I feel like something has been set up right now.
• 11:54
  Trisha Smith: Right In 1890, so three years later, the area was incorporated into small town of Lake Monroe, which eventually was incorporated into the town of Sanford. But the property north of the railroad was sold to Devi Warren, he cleared all of the land for farming except for the little cemetery, like he kept it intact and separated out and you know, he didn't disturb it. So when he sold it to Albert Hawkins in 1905, the graves sat alone in the middle of the cultivated field. But by then the names on the four wooden markers marking the graves were completely gone, so there was no way to identify who they were. According to local stories. Hawkins leased his land to other farmers with the warning not to touch the graves. But of course, that's like saying don't push the button and people.
• 12:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm going to push the button
• 12:59
  Trisha Smith: People touch the grave. So one farmer tried to remove the rusted wire fence surrounding the graves. I don't know if it was just to remove it because it was deteriorating or if he's trying to make more room for crops. But on the same day that he tried to remove the wire fence, his house was struck by lightning and burned down.
• 13:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: Wow!
• 13:25
  Diane Black: Shouldn't of fucked with the graves!
• 13:27
  Trisha Smith: Coincidence?
• 13:28
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think not!
• 13:28
  Diane Black: Yes
• 13:29
  Trisha Smith: In the early 1950s, a small boy supposedly, the grandson of Hawkins either tried to dig in one of the graves or accidentally knocked over a gray marker. There's conflicting stories. But the next night he was hit and killed by a drunk driver who was never identified or caught.
• 13:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh, wow.
• 13:50
  Trisha Smith: I know, even Albert Hawkins, who owned the land, his house burned down after you removed the rotten wooden markers so he could put up new ones when he removed them house burned down.
• 14:04
  Diane Black: You don't mess with graves
• 14:05
  Trisha Smith: I know
• 14:06
  Diane Black: Do not mess with graves!
• 14:08
  Trisha Smith: And his wife was like, that, this what happens.
• 14:13
  Trisha Smith: So he put them back, like he put back the old markers because his wife was pissed.
• 14:19
  Leyla Zmeskal: You better put that shit back right now!
• 14:22
  Trisha Smith: After building a new home, because there was burned down, the Hawkins family were plagued by weird activity involving children's toys. A child's rocker would rock by itself and toys would roll around on their own. Locally, the Hawkins field began to be known as the field of the dead.
• 14:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh
• 14:42
  Trisha Smith: I'd be like, I'm gonna move. So the grandson of Albert Hawkins, Charlie Carlson.
• 14:48
  Trisha Smith: He's a writer. He actually coined the term I-4 deadzone in his 1997 book, Strange Florida.
• 15:00
  Diane Black: Oh wow! That's interesting.
• 15:03
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, isn't it, in 1959, the Hawkins farm, so 54 years later, the Hawkins farm was bought by the government to begin construction of I-4.
• 15:13
  Trisha Smith: During the survey of the property. The four graves were marked for relocation, however,
• 15:22
  Leyla Zmeskal: Uh oh
• 15:22
  Trisha Smith: Because somebody forgot or they just decided it wasn't important enough, they were never moved. In September of 1961 of the strongest hurricanes of modern times, Hurricane Donna, was moving across South Florida headed for the Gulf of Mexico. At this time fill dirt was being dumped onto the graves to elevate the new highway. The exact same day the dirt was dumped. Donna changed her direction near Tampa and headed north east with the path paralleling the surveyed route of the new highway.
• 16:01
  Diane Black: Wow!
• 16:03
  Trisha Smith: The Deadly storm passed over the graves at midnight on September 10, 1960.
• 16:10
  Trisha Smith: That's a little weird.
• 16:11
  Trisha Smith: I know, the destruction from the storm delayed construction for over a month. Strangely enough.
• 16:15
  Trisha Smith: This is also the path hurricane Charley took in 2004 and was actually called the I-4 hurricane, coincidentally to construction was also happening around the graves during this time.
• 16:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh really?
• 16:37
  Trisha Smith: Coincidence, maybe?
• 16:38
  Trisha Smith: Maybe not Maybe
• 16:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Diane's like, I think not!
• 16:42
  Diane Black: I think not!
• 16:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think, No.
• 16:46
  Trisha Smith: On the day the interstate open in 1963, a truck carrying frozen shrimp mysteriously lost control and jackknifed right above where the graves were located claiming several lives, on the opening day.
• 17:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh, wow!
• 17:01
  Diane Black: Oh man!
• 17:02
  Trisha Smith: Since that day,
• 17:03
  Diane Black: I don't know how many signs you have to
• 17:05
  Trisha Smith: Right, well, that was 1963. Since then,
• 17:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: There's a lot more signs
• 17:12
  Trisha Smith: There have been numerous accounts of unexplained lights, orbs, sudden thick fog, loss of radio signal and cell service and even sightings of ghostly apparition. There are so many stories, I can't even, I mean, it doesn't do me any good to even mention one or two because there are so many,
• 17:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right
• 17:32
  Trisha Smith: So surprisingly, up until 1999. Most of what I just talked about was oral local history. But, an old brochure for St. Joseph's colony was found by a local historian and the former president of the Sanford Historical Society, Christine Kinlaw-Best. She began uncovering the entire history of the colony and the four unmarked graves.
• 18:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh, wow.
• 18:02
  Trisha Smith: Right.
• 18:02
  Trisha Smith: Unfortunately, Mrs Kinlaw-Best passed away in April of 2017.
• 18:09
  Diane Black: Aw
• 18:09
  Trisha Smith: And I wasn't able to find, like if she wrote a book about it. I know she gave a lot of information to, Weird US, when they did their book for Florida, like Weird Florida. She gave a lot of the information for the I-4 dead zone to them.
• 18:27
  Trisha Smith: But it unless maybe I go up to the Sanford Historical Society, there's there is nothing published
• 18:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: I wonder if there's something in there.
• 18:36
  Trisha Smith: I'm wondering too.
• 18:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: Or maybe like, the original pamphlet is on exhibit or something.
• 18:40
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 18:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: That would neat.
• 18:41
  Trisha Smith: Wouldn't that be great? So yeah, that's the I-4 dead zone.
• 18:47
  Diane Black: You know, I just, I went to the Google, because I remember hearing last year, which I want to say it was like the third year in a row that I-4 is the deadliest Highway in the whole continental US.
• 19:04
  Trisha Smith: With most of the accidents happening on that quarter stretch of road.
• 19:08
  Diane Black: Yes, Yes, and I'm reading right now. That is also the worst hour to be on. I-4 is rom 2 to 3am that's when the
• 19:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: What?
• 19:22
  Leyla Zmeskal: most deaths happen.
• 19:24
  Diane Black: Yes.
• 19:25
  Trisha Smith: I mean, yeah, I'm sure there are people that are gonna be out there that say 2 to 3am anywhere around the country, that's when you're most tired.
• 19:31
  Trisha Smith: That's when you're, you know, getting groggy, might doze off.
• 19:34
  Trisha Smith: But, according to what I read, that's also the time people see things darting in front of their car, or, you know, mysterious lights, fog.
• 19:50
  Diane Black: This article says that on Interstate 4, which is the deadliest Highway in America, with 1.25 deaths per mile.
• 20:01
  Trisha Smith: Wow.
• 20:03
  Diane Black: Yeah. So and we're, you know, it's the third year running.
• 20:09
  Trisha Smith: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: Wow
• 20:10
  Diane Black: Go Florida, represent. Yeah, represent.
• 20:16
  Leyla Zmeskal: What?
• 20:17
  Diane Black: I don't know.
• 20:21
  Trisha Smith: There are some things we just don't have to be the best at.
• 20:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's one of them.
• 20:29
  Diane Black: As I was listening to the story, I'm like, it's still happening like,
• 20:34
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 20:34
  Diane Black: The deaths.
• 20:35
  Trisha Smith: I mean, that has a rate
• 20:37
  Diane Black: Is just
• 20:38
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 20:38
  Diane Black: Rock skyrocketed.
• 20:40
  Trisha Smith: And I always consider I'm like, I hate I-4.
• 20:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: I hate I-4
• 20:46
  Diane Black: Avoid it at all costs
• 20:47
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 20:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: I will pay tolls to avoid I-4.
• 20:50
  Trisha Smith: I've driven to get on I-95, and I like, I 95 even less than I like, you know, I-4 but I've driven out of my way to get on I 95. Early, you know, like in Merit, or uh Mims before I'll get on I-4, because it's just it's a hot mess all the time, all the time. So between construction and traffic and crazy ass drivers, I just can't, I can't do it. It's a mess.
• 21:20
  Diane Black: Even with the new expansions that have taken place, It's still a hot mess.
• 21:27
  Trisha Smith: Right. And they keep claiming that the construction is going to be done. It's never been done.
• 21:33
  Trisha Smith: Like, I have been living here permanently. I've been coming to Central Florida for a long time.
• 21:37
  Trisha Smith: But I've been living in Orlando for the last 16-17 years, like living here. It's never not been under construction. Never. So yeah, it's never gonna get better. But I can I think I remember like remember when that stretch of road they were expanding the highway between Seminole County and Daytona? I think that was the when Hurricane Charley? Well,
• 22:07
  Diane Black: Yeah, yeah
• 22:08
  Trisha Smith: I don't know. I could be completely wrong.
• 22:09
  Trisha Smith: Because like I said, it's been under construction this whole time.
• 22:12
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 22:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: I meant there's always construction.
• 22:14
  Trisha Smith: Right. Right. So yeah, I mean, I just thought it was really interesting considering we drive that road a
• 22:20
  Diane Black: Yeah, I had heard.
• 22:20
  Diane Black: I mean, lot.
• 22:22
  Trisha Smith: Of course, I had too.
• 22:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: Anyone that lives in Central Florida has heard of the I-4 dead zone.
• 22:29
  Diane Black: Right
• 22:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: In one way or another.
• 22:30
  Diane Black: I never heard of the history behind it, it's really, really fascinating.
• 22:35
  Trisha Smith: And let's just really crappy that they're like,
• 22:35
  Leyla Zmeskal: I think they already are.
• 22:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: oh, there are four graves here.
• 22:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: Who cares? Let's just throw some dirt on it. You know, whoever did that. I know it was 1959 or 1960. But they need to be fired.
• 22:47
  Trisha Smith: You're fired!
• 22:55
  Diane Black: I think they're retired.
• 22:57
  Trisha Smith: Or something. So yeah, the next time we're gonna have to, we might have to like go to Buc-ee's at three o'clock in the morning.
• 23:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: Is Buc-ee's open 24hrs?
• 23:12
  Trisha Smith: It is!
• 23:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh okay
• 23:13
  Diane Black: We can't drive between two and three though.
• 23:15
  Trisha Smith: Why not? That's when all the stuff happens.
• 23:18
  Diane Black: Yeah, the most, what, the most deaths and accidents. I don't want to be in a fucking accident.
• 23:27
  Trisha Smith: I don't either.
• 23:27
  Trisha Smith: But I would like to see what at two or three in the morning. So I can be like, see, that just goes right alone with my story.
• 23:38
  Diane Black: No, we can go at 3:15.
• 23:41
  Leyla Zmeskal: Or 1: 45
• 23:42
  Trisha Smith: Because that makes a difference.
• 23:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: And drive really slow.
• 23:46
  Diane Black: Yeah, yeah, just pull off to the side of the road and we'll just watch the traffic.
• 23:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: For an hour.
• 23:52
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 23:52
  Leyla Zmeskal: I don't want to be in the accident.
• 23:55
  Trisha Smith: Maybe an accident either. But I want to know if something really happens between two and three. We just pull off onto the side.
• 24:01
  Diane Black: That's what I just said.
• 24:02
  Trisha Smith: We'll probably cause the accident because we pulled off to the side.
• 24:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: Alright, and then we will be in an accident.
• 24:07
  Diane Black: We can't let that happen.
• 24:10
  Trisha Smith: I don't know what to tell you.
• 24:14
  Diane Black: Wow
• 24:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: What if we have protection with us? Like, like stones.
• 24:18
  Trisha Smith: Like a bubble cuz that's about all, wheeze, can i just blow a bubble around my car. So nobody hits me. That's the only thing that's gonna protect us.
• 24:29
  Diane Black: Seems like it We'll have to put some thought into that.
• 24:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh, wow.
• 24:34
  Trisha Smith: Nobody wants to join me on my
• 24:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: I will.
• 24:38
  Diane Black: There you go.
• 24:38
  Trisha Smith: Okay, so but there's a stretch of road right over here by us, by Chapman. And it's like if you go by there at night, you'll see a ghost or somebody's screaming or something we've never drove it droven and driven
• 24:53
  Diane Black: What had happened was, because we'd never droven.
• 24:59
  Trisha Smith: It's this damn Filipino Rum
• 25:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Infused with Filipino sass,
• 25:06
  Trisha Smith: Sluring my speech.
• 25:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: We'll have to check out that road, though.
• 25:13
  Diane Black: Oh yeah,
• 25:14
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, the one up here.
• 25:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, the one over Literally around the corner,
• 25:17
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 25:17
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, we'll do that. That'll be like our, local location.
• 25:22
  Diane Black: Our day trip
• 25:22
  Trisha Smith: It will We'll have to video that one.
• 25:25
  Diane Black: Oh yeah
• 25:25
  Trisha Smith: Crusing back and forth looking for ghosts.
• 25:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: Cops will stop us, like what do you guys doing?
• 25:31
  Trisha Smith: I'll record that too.
• 25:33
  Diane Black: We'll have our EMF, we'll have our Ghost Box. We'll have our video camera.
• 25:39
  Trisha Smith: Hey, Coper, you want to be on our podcast?
• 25:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah Coper
• 25:42
  Trisha Smith: Say a few words.
• 25:43
  Trisha Smith: I just read this story. This book where this lady called this guy, the cop in the story was like from the 20s and he had red hair. So she called him copper.
• 25:55
  Trisha Smith: It's still like stuck in my brain. I don't know what it is.
• 25:59
  Trisha Smith: But I don't know.
• 26:01
  Trisha Smith: I like it.
• 26:02
  Leyla Zmeskal: Listen here Coper
• 26:03
  Trisha Smith: I'm gonna call every cop I see copper.
• 26:05
  Diane Black: No, Don't do that.
• 26:05
  Diane Black: Don't think that they would like it.
• 26:11
  Trisha Smith: Why not? I'ma try it on Jeremy 1st.
• 26:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Like an old time, like a like a, mobster.
• 26:16
  Trisha Smith: What if I try an accent like Leyla?
• 26:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: Listen here Coppa.
• 26:20
  Leyla Zmeskal: I don't think they like that.
• 26:25
  Trisha Smith: You try that when you get home Leyla, and you let us know how it works out.
• 26:28
  Diane Black: Yeah. Before that.
• 26:29
  Trisha Smith: I'll live vicariously through you.
• 26:31
  Diane Black: Yeah, you can report back to us?
• 26:35
  Trisha Smith: Let us know, we're gonna want details later. Make sure you say with an accent and a lot of Filipinos sass.
• 26:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: And a lot of it.
• 26:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'll channel you and my Grandmother.
• 26:48
  Trisha Smith: You can channel me and your Grandmother.
• 26:50
  Diane Black: There you go.
• 26:52
  Trisha Smith: You know use your own accents. Don't use mine.
• 26:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: What do you know about me? Terrible accents and break out in songs.
• 27:00
  Diane Black: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean, that's me.
• 27:02
  Trisha Smith: I don't.
• 27:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hell yeah, I do.
• 27:04
  Trisha Smith: I'm like, just, I can't even use the word terrible for my accents. They're so bad.
• 27:08
  Trisha Smith: They don't rateable. There bad.
• 27:14
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean, our listeners already know that's me.
• 27:16
  Trisha Smith: At least they sound like accents. Mine just sound like I'm just talking weird. Like with a slore, slur.
• 27:24
  Trisha Smith: See, I can't even say it
• 27:28
  Leyla Zmeskal: Slur
• 27:28
  Trisha Smith: Exactly
• 27:30
  Leyla Zmeskal: People are like, any minute now, Leyla's gonna break into another one.
• 27:33
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 27:34
  Trisha Smith: We're waiting
• 27:34
  Diane Black: I know
• 27:35
  Trisha Smith: She's about to do it right now when she tells
• 27:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Well isten here
• 27:40
  Trisha Smith: Exactly, cause she can call me coper.
• 27:41
  Diane Black: Tell us a story.
• 27:41
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm gonna tell you ladies a story.
• 27:43
  Trisha Smith: Do it girl.
• 27:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: So, this one, I'm going to tell you that you know, this location, Really?
• 27:52
  Leyla Zmeskal: That I'm about to tell you about?
• 27:55
  Diane Black: That?
• 27:58
  Trisha Smith: Sounds good.
• 27:58
  Trisha Smith: Sounds good.
• 28:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: However,
• 28:01
  Trisha Smith: Okay, you're gonna make us guess?
• 28:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yes.
• 28:03
  Trisha Smith: Okay.
• 28:04
  Diane Black: Oh, fun.
• 28:05
  Trisha Smith: Okay,
• 28:05
  Leyla Zmeskal: So, if you don't get it by the time you'll really know where this location is.
• 28:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'll end up telling ya.
• 28:14
  Diane Black: Alright
• 28:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: So, the story I'm about to tell you is a little short, sweet one.
• 28:20
  Leyla Zmeskal: Okay.
• 28:20
  Leyla Zmeskal: It's about the Villa Casa Casuarina.
• 28:24
  Trisha Smith: Ooooo, Casuarina?
• 28:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Casuarina. I got all of my location. I mean, d ng nabiters, I got all of my in ormation about this story. Mo
• 28:32
  Diane Black: It's in Miami.
• 28:37
  Diane Black: tly from Miami haun
• 28:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Oh my gosh.
• 28:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: course it's in Miami.
• 28:44
  Trisha Smith: Gosh, there's so much.
• 28:45
  Leyla Zmeskal: There's so much
• 28:46
  Trisha Smith: In Miami though.
• 28:46
  Trisha Smith: There's a lot of haunted stuff there.
• 28:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: There. Yes, there
• 28:50
  Trisha Smith: There really is
• 28:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, So this villa is in Miami and it's actually on Ocean Drive.
• 29:00
  Trisha Smith: Okay
• 29:01
  Diane Black: Oh
• 29:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: Any guesses yet?
• 29:03
  Diane Black: Is it
• 29:04
  Trisha Smith: Is it the Versace house?
• 29:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: It is
• 29:06
  Diane Black: AH
• 29:15
  Leyla Zmeskal: But you know, it didn't start off as the Versace mansion.
• 29:18
  Trisha Smith: That's just what it's known now.
• 29:20
  Diane Black: I didn't know that.
• 29:21
  Trisha Smith: Yeah
• 29:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: But it's actually, really interesting.
• 29:24
  Trisha Smith: Really
• 29:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Researching I was like holy krimany.
• 29:27
  Trisha Smith: This is the only thing I know about it is.
• 29:29
  Trisha Smith: Is the Versace Mansion.
• 29:30
  Diane Black: Me too
• 29:31
  Trisha Smith: Right, alll right.
• 29:32
  Leyla Zmeskal: But it started out, it was built in 1930. In a Mediterranean Revival style, the villa Casa Casuarina translates to, house of the Australian pine.
• 29:43
  Diane Black: Oh
• 29:43
  Trisha Smith: Really?
• 29:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: Some say it was named after a novel, Under the Casuarina Tree, while others say it was named after a lone surviving tree, of the 1926 Miami hurricane on the lot that the house is built.
• 29:59
  Trisha Smith: Oh, Okay.
• 30:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: Very it's kind of really interesting. The villa was modeled on the Alcazar De Cologne, which was the fortified Spanish palace built in the Americas. It is actually located in the Dominican Republic.
• 30:16
  Trisha Smith: Oh
• 30:17
  Diane Black: Oh
• 30:17
  Leyla Zmeskal: Um hmm. Actually one of the blocks from the Alcazar sits on the right side of the entrance.
• 30:24
  Trisha Smith: Really
• 30:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Isn't that interesting.
• 30:26
  Trisha Smith: That is very cool.
• 30:29
  Leyla Zmeskal: So there is also a lot of other really interesting things about this house. There is rumored that there is a lost time capsule hidden in one of the villa walls by the very first owner. It's filled with esoteric artifacts.
• 30:45
  Trisha Smith: No way.
• 30:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yes way.
• 30:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: Apparently, he was a firm believer in various occult practices.
• 30:54
  Trisha Smith: Oh my God
• 30:56
  Diane Black: Ooooo
• 30:56
  Trisha Smith: Who was the owner?
• 30:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'll get to that.
• 30:59
  Trisha Smith: Oh okay.
• 31:01
  Diane Black: All the questions, Bam, Bam, Bam.
• 31:04
  Leyla Zmeskal: So not only do you possibly have a, you know, hidden time capsule, there are also many hidden passageways and secret doors throughout the villa. It has an observatory, a replica of a prison tower, a d about 100 medallions of notab e public figures or politic l figures decorating the wal s including Lenin, Mussolin, Bonaparte, Stalin, Ceasar.
• 31:31
  Diane Black: Wow
• 31:33
  Leyla Zmeskal: First owner of the villa was Alden Friedman.
• 31:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: And he was a Standard Oil heir.
• 31:36
  Leyla Zmeskal: He was said to be a man of impeccable health, yet after two years after he moved in Friedman died of a weird and prolong sickness in the masters chamber.
• 31:51
  Trisha Smith: Probably because of all his occult dealings.
• 31:54
  Leyla Zmeskal: Uh something's going on.
• 31:56
  Trisha Smith: Right, right.
• 31:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: Um, Friedman's family either pushed by grief or some other influence started to slowly go insane. And they sold the property for less than$100,000 to Jack's, jock, sorry, Jack's. Sorry, sorry, to Jacques Amsterdam.
• 32:19
  Trisha Smith: Oh, okay.
• 32:20
  Leyla Zmeskal: And then it became known as the Amsterdam Palace. But a few years after they sold it Friedman's youngest adopted son would say that the vibe of the house was very fatalist. He says, like, my dad would constantly die over and over, and over again,
• 32:39
  Diane Black: Would die?
• 32:40
  Leyla Zmeskal: Would die over and over and over again. He said you would wake up from a vivid dream sure that you just heard his guttural screams of anguish.
• 32:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: And it wasn't just me. More than once he came upon his mom in bed sobbing, uncontrollably, raving about how something cold and frigid had put its arms around her torso, soothing and invading and slithering underneath her bedsheets.
• 33:05
  Trisha Smith: Oh
• 33:07
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's a little strange.
• 33:09
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, no, no, no.
• 33:11
  Leyla Zmeskal: So after it was sold to Jacques Amsterdam, apparently, he had more than one terrified worker quit suddenly.
• 33:20
  Trisha Smith: Well, yeah.
• 33:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: So much so, that he had the whole place hollowed and consecrated by priests from the local church.
• 33:30
  Trisha Smith: Wow
• 33:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: However, when the statue of Aphrodite that's located in the courtyard started freaking him out. He said that the thing, he called the statute, The thing, is follow me with its black eyes, even into my sleep. Oh, yeah, he was so freaked out that he decided just to cut his losses, and he transformed his home into a 24 unit apartment building.
• 33:57
  Trisha Smith: Wow
• 33:58
  Diane Black: Wow
• 33:59
  Leyla Zmeskal: So from that time, the building was passed from one corporation to another.
• 34:02
  Leyla Zmeskal: However, residents would claim to see objects fading and vanishing before the eyes, shadows creeping at the edge of their eyesight, animals snapping at empty corners. Some say they see a terrifying man with white hair wearing a black suit and a top hat roaming around. One resident claim that there was something in the closet, saying each night they would hear something moving inside, and at first they thought it was rats and had the place checked out by exterminators. When they couldn't take it anymore. They chained the door shut. One day, when they woke up the chain, the padlock was busted. And the chains were laying on the floor.
• 34:51
  Leyla Zmeskal: And that's when they were like, that's it. Yeah, we're moving out.
• 34:55
  Trisha Smith: Wow. Did they ever trace the figure that they saw back to the original owner?
• 34:59
  Trisha Smith: That's really prior to the thirties?
• 35:07
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right, from what I read a medium came in there and it said that it was a soldier. I don't know that correlation, but.
• 35:18
  Trisha Smith: I wage war on your gift of song. I don't know.
• 35:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: But people, but mediums said that place was infested.
• 35:27
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 35:28
  Trisha Smith: Well, yeah, clearly.
• 35:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: So in 1992, the big the building was purchased and extensively remodeled by Gianni Versace.
• 35:38
  Leyla Zmeskal: 1992. He lived in the mansion until he was shot
• 35:38
  Diane Black: What year?
• 35:43
  Diane Black: and killed on the steps of the Villa by of course, Andrew Cunanan in 1987. Since his death, though, Versace is said to still wander the villas for corridoors.
• 35:53
  Trisha Smith: Wait, what year was it 1997?
• 35:55
  Leyla Zmeskal: That he was was shot.
• 35:56
  Trisha Smith: So he only lived there for five years.
• 35:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, and I tried to look for things, like if you know, there was claims of it.
• 36:02
  Leyla Zmeskal: Like was haunted.
• 36:06
  Trisha Smith: Was the you know, was he influenced by or was he
• 36:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: You know some say? You know, they don't know, cursed from living they don't know. So some say that, you know, Versace still wanders the corridors as well as the original old owner, Alden
• 36:20
  Diane Black: Oh really?
• 36:20
  Diane Black: Friedman. The hotel I mean, it's now been purchased as a luxury hotel and you can actually
• 36:30
  Leyla Zmeskal: You can actually, you know, spend
• 36:31
  Diane Black: No Fucking Way
• 36:32
  Leyla Zmeskal: $1,000 a night and stay in Versace's room.
• 36:35
  Trisha Smith: What's the hotel called?
• 36:38
  Leyla Zmeskal: The Casa Casuarina.
• 36:40
  Trisha Smith: Oh, wow!
• 36:42
  Leyla Zmeskal: It's a it's a luxury hotel now.
• 36:44
  Unknown: You know he like died on the steps.
• 36:47
  Trisha Smith: Well yeah
• 36:48
  Leyla Zmeskal: He was shot
• 36:48
  Diane Black: He was shot and died on the steps.
• 36:50
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 36:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: On top of all the other things that I told you.
• 36:52
  Diane Black: Yeah right
• 36:54
  Leyla Zmeskal: About the property.
• 36:55
  Diane Black: Not happening?
• 36:55
  Diane Black: Not, not this girl anyway.
• 36:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Leyla Zmeskal: You know, and when it was the Versace mansion, you know, tons of celebrities would be there.
• 37:05
  Trisha Smith: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Leyla Zmeskal: Madona, Princess Di and I tried to look for things but,
• 37:09
  Trisha Smith: Nobody reported anything?
• 37:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: Maybe I just didn't like look hard enough.
• 37:13
  Leyla Zmeskal: But I found all the other stuff about the property
• 37:15
  Trisha Smith: Because I've read that when if you're in a haunted location and you start to do or even something that maybe isn't haunted once you start to do any type of construction,
• 37:26
  Leyla Zmeskal: Things get crazy
• 37:27
  Trisha Smith: Yeah,
• 37:28
  Leyla Zmeskal: Well, Originally, it was just you know, the, or think there was like 10 bathrooms and eight bedrooms and you know, some court like a small courtyard or some you know, lounge salons they called them, but when he first he, Versace, bought it, he renovated it back to its original and he thought the property was too small. So he purchased this the lot beside him which had an older hotel on it was just a few years older than the Casa Casuraina and he demolished that, and he put it in a swimming pool and gardens to expand his his mansion.
• 38:09
  Trisha Smith: Wow. In just five years.
• 38:11
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 38:12
  Leyla Zmeskal: Well, it's Versasce, he has all that money.
• 38:14
  Trisha Smith: I guess, I can't even like plant a garden in my yard and make it last. Five fucking years I've been living in my house.
• 38:26
  Diane Black: He had people for that.
• 38:27
  Leyla Zmeskal: I was reading an article, I think it was like, Vanity Fair, where his sister Donnatella, I guess Versace was visiting Miami and asked his cab driver to take him to someplace unique and beautiful. And I guess the cab driver, you know, drove by that building and I guess he fell in love with the building. And I guess Donnatella was with him, and he says, I'm going to purchase that building us like she says, but it's at night. He goes, I'm calling my lawyers. And it said in this article, it says sure enough, you know, I don't know how he did it. But he ended up purchasing the property and extensively renovating it and,
• 39:08
  Trisha Smith: Damn
• 39:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, he said in one of the articles that I read, and I read a couple articles about about that, that he himself would use, Versace, would use the secret passageways and secret doors to get from like his bedroom to one of the salons.
• 39:26
  Trisha Smith: So none of those were taken out when they turned him into apartments. Maybe that's what people were hearing when they thought things were in their closet where maybe people moving around
• 39:36
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 39:36
  Trisha Smith: Passageways and
• 39:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: Maybe
• 39:38
  Trisha Smith: Because that's much scarier to me.
• 39:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: Did you, there's this movie about people living in like attics and things and watching,
• 39:51
  Trisha Smith: There are so many stories.
• 39:53
  Leyla Zmeskal: And watching, like the family you know, go about their daily things, but they're living there,
• 39:59
  Trisha Smith: I don't like that.
• 40:02
  Diane Black: No, I haven't seen that.
• 40:02
  Leyla Zmeskal: So if you're curious and you want to stay at a luxury hotel and want to stay in Versace's old bedroom,
• 40:09
  Diane Black: No
• 40:09
  Leyla Zmeskal: Fork out a 1000 bucks a night it said,
• 40:12
  Trisha Smith: I don't want to do that. So many other things that I need to spend 1000 dollars on.
• 40:20
  Leyla Zmeskal: I know, but the pictures are stunning.
• 40:22
  Trisha Smith: I'm sure.
• 40:23
  Diane Black: I can imagine.
• 40:23
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean stunning,
• 40:25
  Trisha Smith: Right? Yeah. No, thank you.
• 40:28
  Diane Black: He was a genius. I mean, he had such an eye for of art. So I can imagine nothing less.
• 40:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, but that's a good question, though. When the, when it was turned from the Casa Casuarina, to a 24 unit apartment building. What happened to those secret
• 40:46
  Trisha Smith: Secrets passageways?
• 40:48
  Leyla Zmeskal: Or was that added in for Versace?
• 40:54
  Trisha Smith: Oh yeah, or added back in? Yeah.
• 40:55
  Leyla Zmeskal: Or added back in, you know, or maybe when they were doing this extensive remodeling? They discovered like, Oh, this,
• 41:03
  Trisha Smith: This goes to here
• 41:04
  Leyla Zmeskal: This was like part of something. And of course, you know,
• 41:08
  Trisha Smith: Because if it was remodeled for apartments, chances are you wouldn't ever have realized the original intention was for it to be secret. So I'm thinking they weren't ever,
• 41:19
  Leyla Zmeskal: They just did the basic,
• 41:20
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 41:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: And especially from you know, I would imagine the guy want just want to cut his losses and try to recoup some of the the money that he spent on there, which I don't know, he bought it for less than$100,000. Which,
• 41:33
  Diane Black: That's insane
• 41:33
  Leyla Zmeskal: That seems really cheap, even for ack in the day.
• 41:38
  Trisha Smith: I wish there was some way to Google, like how much $100,000 was in what year?
• 41:41
  Trisha Smith: Was it?
• 41:44
  Leyla Zmeskal: The 1930s.
• 41:46
  Leyla Zmeskal: But then that's when everything like the Miami and was starting to get very popular. You know, with people coming down in Florida becoming popular,
• 41:55
  Diane Black: Yeah, it was still during the Depression, though, right?
• 41:57
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah. But if you had money?
• 41:59
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 41:59
  Trisha Smith: Let's see
• 42:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: It said that Friedman was a good friend of Harry Flagler. And so that, I mean,
• 42:06
  Trisha Smith: Uh huh
• 42:07
  Diane Black: Those railroad guys
• 42:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, so that's, that's also
• 42:10
  Trisha Smith: So $100,000 in 1930 is equivalent to about $1.6 million. Nowadays,
• 42:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean, that was a lot of, I guess it was a lot of money.
• 42:23
  Trisha Smith: Yeah. So that's still not like what we think$100,000 but, you know, considering the description,
• 42:34
  Leyla Zmeskal: Right
• 42:34
  Trisha Smith: 1.6 million like in today's that's, nothing.
• 42:39
  Diane Black: Right, then you'd probably have to, put in, another million to get it to where it is. I mean, that level of fancyness.
• 42:51
  Trisha Smith: I'd like to know how much Versace paid. Gianni Versace paid for it and how much it ended up how much it is today.
• 43:00
  Diane Black: I did
• 43:00
  Trisha Smith: Did you read that?
• 43:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: But I didn't put that in there because, I think he, son of a biscuit eater.
• 43:04
  Leyla Zmeskal: When, dang nabiters, when it was, when it was passed down to, one of the people that was going bankrupt. I think he was putting it on the market for like $125 million. And it went to auction.
• 43:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: And I think Donald Trump was even thinking about buying it. I think it was I think this is after, Versace. And I think it's sold for like $42.5 million by the, by some family that was connected to the Jordache brand.
• 43:43
  Trisha Smith: Yeah well
• 43:45
  Diane Black: Not surprised really.
• 43:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah
• 43:47
  Trisha Smith: To even find anything over there.
• 43:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean, I found,I know I found all the the totals and everything. But I was like, No one really wants to know that part about it.
• 43:55
  Trisha Smith: Except for me
• 43:56
  Diane Black: What i'm curious is,all the guests that he had come over those short five years.
• 44:04
  Diane Black: Like that they,
• 44:07
  Leyla Zmeskal: They had experienced anything.
• 44:08
  Diane Black: Yeah, I would think that some,
• 44:11
  Leyla Zmeskal: Princess Diane, Princess Di was supposedly stay there, Madonna.
• 44:16
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 44:16
  Leyla Zmeskal: Like all kinds of,
• 44:17
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 44:17
  Trisha Smith: Wow
• 44:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hoity toity people.
• 44:20
  Trisha Smith: That's crazy.
• 44:21
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah I thought that was really interesting.
• 44:23
  Trisha Smith: That's a good one.
• 44:24
  Diane Black: Very much so.
• 44:24
  Trisha Smith: Yeah
• 44:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: And it was kind of like a you know,
• 44:27
  Trisha Smith: I didn't know there was so much history behind it.
• 44:30
  Leyla Zmeskal: I did not either.
• 44:32
  Diane Black: I didn't know any of that.
• 44:33
  Leyla Zmeskal: I just you know, you just think of it as you know. Oh, the Versace mansion.
• 44:37
  Diane Black: Right
• 44:37
  Trisha Smith: Right. Wow.
• 44:39
  Leyla Zmeskal: I didn't realize, I like to know when all those political medallions were,
• 44:45
  Trisha Smith: And what that happened to them, are they,
• 44:47
  Leyla Zmeskal: They're still, apparently they're still there.
• 44:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: Really? So what they do with those when it was an apartment building. I don't know. That's a good,
• 44:57
  Trisha Smith: Does somebody have an apartment with like, Stalin in there, I mean I don't know.
• 45:01
  Trisha Smith: So weird.
• 45:03
  Diane Black: Or was it like in the lobby?
• 45:05
  Trisha Smith: Yeah, I don't know.
• 45:06
  Trisha Smith: Well, when Versace moved in there, it's it's reported that he put a lot of his emblems.
• 45:13
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 45:13
  Leyla Zmeskal: In like, in the villa. And supposedly, like on the floor, there's some kind of message to decode or something.
• 45:24
  Leyla Zmeskal: I mean, it's kind of got a lil, a lil, work.
• 45:28
  Diane Black: Yeah. Like, yeah, go and research and learn a little more.
• 45:34
  Diane Black: I mean, I thought it was interesting.
• 45:36
  Diane Black: Yes, definitely.
• 45:37
  Leyla Zmeskal: I came across on like, wow, this is not, what I really expected.
• 45:41
  Diane Black: No, at all.
• 45:43
  Leyla Zmeskal: But having a secret Time Capsule hidden somewhere where the original owner was supposed to of, you know, filled it with esoteric artifacts,
• 45:53
  Trisha Smith: That's weird.
• 45:54
  Leyla Zmeskal: That's a little strange.
• 45:56
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 45:56
  Leyla Zmeskal: And is that you know, the reason why there's so much activity or,
• 46:01
  Diane Black: Could be,
• 46:02
  Trisha Smith: I don't know,
• 46:03
  Leyla Zmeskal: I don't know, but it was strange. He was a healthy man and then moved in.
• 46:08
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 46:08
  Leyla Zmeskal: Years later.
• 46:09
  Trisha Smith: Yeah
• 46:10
  Leyla Zmeskal: Gone
• 46:11
  Diane Black: He didn't have AIDS?
• 46:15
  Trisha Smith: She's talking about the guy from the 30s.
• 46:18
  Diane Black: Oh Okay
• 46:18
  Leyla Zmeskal: I'm like, I don't think they had it back then.
• 46:20
  Diane Black: Okay, nevermind.
• 46:28
  Trisha Smith: Well good story.
• 46:30
  Diane Black: Yeah
• 46:31
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yes
• 46:31
  Trisha Smith: I knew that and I loved that. It was like, it was in Miami.
• 46:35
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah
• 46:36
  Trisha Smith: I've heard a lot of things about Miami, but not that one.
• 46:39
  Diane Black: No
• 46:39
  Leyla Zmeskal: Yeah, that was kind of like a rare nugget that I right stumbled across and since I was just doing like a little mini story, I figured Oh, this is a perfect for a little mini story. It's got like good history, and then all of a sudden it's like, over.
• 46:54
  Trisha Smith: Yeah
• 46:55
  Leyla Zmeskal: Good job for guessing it though.
• 46:58
  Trisha Smith: I heard Ocean Drive.
• 47:00
  Leyla Zmeskal: I thought that when I said,
• 47:01
  Trisha Smith: Right
• 47:01
  Leyla Zmeskal: Ocean Drive. I had a feeling that that might have given,
• 47:04
  Trisha Smith: That's what clued me in.
• 47:05
  Diane Black: My guess was going to be Mara Lago, Mar a Lago?
• 47:13
  Leyla Zmeskal: I would have been like, you are wrong. Alright, so,
• 47:20
  Trisha Smith: Nice
• 47:21
  Diane Black: Good job, girls.
• 47:22
  Leyla Zmeskal: Thanks
• 47:22
  Trisha Smith: Thank you I'm ready for another cocktail.
• 47:25
  Leyla Zmeskal: Absolutly If you want to know anything about it, check out our Boozy Banter, Instagram page or,
• 47:33
  Trisha Smith: Or Boozy Banter with Friends.com. We have pictures up and our drink recipes and yeah, and just we'd love to hear from you in general.
• 47:45
  Leyla Zmeskal: Absolutely So until then,
• 47:48
  Trisha Smith: All right
• 47:49
  Leyla Zmeskal: Cheers
• 47:49
  Trisha Smith: Cheers
• 47:49
  Diane Black: Cheers
• 47:50
  Leyla Zmeskal: Hey, like what you hear?
• 47:52
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• 47:57
  Diane Black: Thanks for listening.
• 47:58
  Leyla Zmeskal: Until next time.
• 47:59
  Diane Black: Late-a